Guides: Kelly Writers House Fellows 2020: Saidiya Hartman: February 17-18

Selected Works @ Penn Libraries

Works Written by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. E185.86 .H379 2019
ISBN: 9780393285673
Publication Date: 2019
In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers the radical aspirations and insurgent desires of young black women.
Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DT510.2 .H375 2008
ISBN: 9780374270827
Publication Date: 2007
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy. Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.
Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya V. Hartman
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. E443 .H37 1997
ISBN: 0195089847
Publication Date: 1997
In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.

Works Contributed to by Saidiya Hartman

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 by W. E. B. Du Bois; Introduction by Saidiya Hartman
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. E441 .D81 2007
ISBN: 9780195325713
Publication Date: 2007
Lorna Simpson: For the Sake of the Viewer by Beryl J. Wright; Saidiya V. Hartman
Call Number: Fine Arts Library. TR654 .W75 1992
ISBN: 0876636377
Publication Date: 1992

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Saidiya Hartman

February 17–18, 2020

A Reading & Conversation with Saidiya Hartman

A reading and discussion of Saidiya Hartmans's work, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019).

The Scholarly Discussion from MLA Bibliography

Works about Saidiya Hartman:

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Learn more about Saidiya

Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is also the former Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia.
Interviews:
- Barnard Center for Research on Women Salon in honor of Saidiya Hartman.
- Los Angeles Review of Books conversation between Saidiya and Rizvana Bradley.
- The White Review's interview of Saidiya by Victoria Adukwei Bulley.
- Saidiya interviewing with Pen Out Loud for the Strand Bookstore, NY.
- Saidiya's interview with The Creative Independent.
Saidiya reading her work with Simone White and Diamond Stingily for the Ear Inn series at the Zinc Bar in New York City available through Penn Sound.

Awards & Recognitions

2019 MacArthur Fellow

Learn more about Saidiya's work at the MacArthur Foundation.

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2019 National Book Critics Circle Award

Received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism for her 2019 title, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval.

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2018 Guggenheim Fellow

Awarded for Intellectual and Cultural History.

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2018 Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago

Learn more about the Distinguished Professorship and listen to Saidiya on The Critical Inquiry Podcast.

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2016 Cullman Fellow

Hartman was selected as a 2016 Cullman Center Fellow for the New York Public Library.

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View a brief biography listing more of Saidiya's accomplishments.