Saidiya Hartman

Saidiya Hartman is a scholar whose work focuses on African American literature and cultural history. Her academic career includes a professorship at Columbia University in New York. In 2019, she received a MacArthur Fellowship. Her book “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments” received, among other honors, the National Book Critics Circle Award and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2020.