saidiya hartman

university professor • columbia university

a writer and scholar tracing slavery and its long afterlife in black life, across scenes of subjection, lose your mother, and wayward lives, beautiful experiments. she is a university professor at columbia university and a 2019 macarthur fellow.

bio from columbia university, english and comparative literature

read

• How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life — the nation, 2022
• Regard for One Another: A Conversation Between Rizvana Bradley and Saidiya Hartman — los angeles review of books, 2019
• Interview with Saidiya Hartman — the white review, 2020
• The Tragic Mode — the new york review of books, 2022
• The Interview: Saidiya Hartman — artreview, 2025

watch

• Saidiya Hartman, Literary Scholar and Cultural Historian — macarthur foundation, 2019
• Saidiya Hartman & Arthur Jafa in conversation — hammer museum, 2019
• Saidiya Hartman and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Scenes of Subjection — free library of philadelphia, 2022
• PEN Out Loud: Saidiya Hartman with Leslie Jamison — strand book store, 2019
• IRAAS Conversations: In Celebration of Saidiya Hartman's "Scenes of Subjection" — columbia university, 2022 (link not yet checked)

hear

• The Reading Life: Saidiya Hartman — the reading life, wwno, 2025
• Saidiya Hartman: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments — craft, wasafiri, 2022
• The 'Beautiful Experiments' Left Out of Black History — notes from america, wnyc, 2021
• Scenes of Subjection at 25, and the Survival Programs of Black Anarchism — millennials are killing capitalism, 2022
• Episode 4: Saidiya Hartman — wb202, the critical inquiry podcast, 2018