sylvia wynter
professor emerita • stanford university
a novelist, dramatist, critic, and philosopher, born in cuba in 1928 and raised in jamaica, whose writing on what it means to be human has shaped black studies. she joined stanford university in 1977 and is professor emerita there.
bio from stanford university, division of literatures, cultures, and languages
read
- What Will Be the Cure?: A Conversation with Sylvia Wynter — offshoot journal, 2021
- Sylvia Wynter offers a new understanding of humanity, part 2 — the gleaner, jamaica, 2018
- Sylvia Wynter: An Oral History — stanford historical society, 2017
- PROUD FLESH Inter/Views: Sylvia Wynter — proudflesh, 2006
- The Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium — duke university libraries, 2026
watch
- Sylvia Wynter: Beyond Man — al jazeera english, 2025
- On Sylvia Wynter: The Making of Black Metamorphosis — comparative literature, nyu
- manuel arturo abreu's Lecture on the Work of Sylvia Wynter — pace gallery
hear
- 135. Mastering Ceremonies: Sylvia Wynter — history of philosophy without any gaps
- Ep. 57: Sylvia Wynter, "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom" — always already podcast, 2018
- The Third Event: Bedour Alagraa on Sylvia Wynter and Black Radical Thought — millennials are killing capitalism, 2021
- WWWS: What Would Wynter Say? (the whole series) — wynterian scholars