Faculty

Katherine McKittrick

Graduate Coordinator

Email k.mckittrick@queensu.ca  

Tel (613)533-6000 ext. 78813

Personal website www.katherinemckittrick.com

Katherine McKittrick researches in the areas of black studies, cultural geography and gender studies. Her interests are interdisciplinary, looking at questions of social and spatial justice in black creative texts, with her forthcoming book looking specifically at the promise of science in black poetry, music, and fiction.

Katherine also researches the writings of Sylvia Wynter. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and co-edited, with Clyde Woods, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (Toronto and Cambridge, MA: Between the Lines Press/South End Press). Additional publications can be found in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Gender, Place and Culture, Topia, and the Journal of Social and Cultural Geography.

Research and supervision areas: diasporic and migratory histories and cultures; cultural geographies; black studies and critical race studies; expressive cultures (music, literature, poetry).

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.

Graduate Course GNDS 801 Fall 2011 Syllabus