Dr. SA Smythe is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and the Archive in the Faculty of Information and an affiliate faculty member of the Women & Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). Prior to joining UofT, they were Assistant Professor of Black European Cultural Studies and Black Trans Poetics at UCLA and a Fellow awarded the 2022 Rome Prize for Modern Italian Studies at the American Academy in Rome. Smythe is a critical theorist, poet, transdisciplinary artist, and translator committed to black belonging beyond all borders and the study of how archives of otherwise possibility come to be narrated, realised, and remembered. They hold a PhD in History of Consciousness with emphases in Feminist Studies and Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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