Katherine McKittrick

Email:
k.mckittrick@queensu.ca

Phone:
(613) 533-6000 x 78813

www.katherinemckittrick.com

Katherine McKittrick teaches and research in the areas of black studies, critical race studies, and cultural geographies, with an emphasis on expressive cultures (music, literature, poetry). She is particularly interested in the ways in which black communities–past and present–have used creative knowledge as a means of disrupting commonsense geographic knowledges. Katherine also researches the writings of intellectual Sylvia Wynter–who continues to inform her study of the new human and radical poetics.  Katherine authored Demonic Grounds:  Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle and co-edited, with Clyde Woods, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.  She has also published in Topia, Gender, Place and Culture, and Mosaic.  Her current manuscript, tentatively titled Dear Science, will explore the promise of science in black creative texts. 

Supervisory Areas:  Black Studies, Critical Race Studies, Cultural Geographies, Diaspora and Migratory Cultures, the Arts, Feminist Studies.

Selected Publications:

• Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
• Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods, eds. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines Press; Boston: South End Press, 2007.
• ‘I Entered the Lists... Diaspora Catalogues: The List, The Unbearable Territory, and Tormented Chronologies-Three Narratives and a Weltanschauung.' XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, 17, (2007): 7-29.
• ‘‘Their Blood is There, and They Can't Throw it Out': Honouring Black Canadian Geographies.' Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 7, (2002): 27-37.
• ‘‘Who Do You Talk To, When a Body's in Trouble?': M. Nourbese Philip's UnSilencing of Black Bodies in the Diaspora.' The Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 1:2, (2000a) 223-236.
• ‘‘Black and ‘Cause I'm Black I'm Blue': Transverse Racial Geographies in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.' Gender, Place and Culture, 7:2 (2000b): 125-142.