
Saidiya Hartman
Author · 5 books
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, and Scenes of Subjection. She a Guggenheim Fellow and has been a Cullman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.
Books

Scenes of Subjection
Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
1997

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World
The Alchemy Lecture 2023
2024

Venus in Two Acts
2008

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
2019

Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
2007