Sarah Sharma

Sarah Sharma holds a PhD from York/Toronto Metropolitan University’s Joint Program in Communication and Culture. Prior to coming to the University of Toronto in January 2016, Professor Sharma was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Sharma’s research focuses on media theory, specifically the relationship between technology, time and labour with a specific focus on issues related to gender, race and class. Her monograph “In the Meantime,” is an intervention in the popular sentiment that the world is ‘speeding up’. Working against this myopic focus on speedup, the book introduces a new approach to time called ‘power-chronography,’ locating the ways in which temporality operates as a key relation of power structured at the intersection of a range of social differences. Professor Sharma is currently working on a new book on the topic of gender, technology and escape tentatively titled Broken Machine Feminism.

• Book of the Year, National Communication Association Cultural Division, “In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics” (Duke University Press, 2014)