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Christina Sharpe papers (Ms.2018.015)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Telephone: Manuscripts: 401-863-3723; University Archives: 401-863-2148
Email: Manuscripts: hay@brown.edu; University Archives: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Biographical and Personal, 2006-2007

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Curriculum Vitae
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 2 Funerary papers of colleague Gerald Gill
2007

Correspondence, 2000-2018

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 4 April 2000: regarding "The Issue of Essentialism in Feminist Art and Culture during the Second Wave of the Women's Movement"
2000
Box 1, Folder 5 2002-2010: personal correpsondence
2002-2010
Box 1, Folder 6 2004-2005: regarding tenure position
2004-2005
Box 1, Folder 7 January 2007: Brennan Maier to American Studies Department
2007
Box 1, Folder 8 November 2007: correspondence regarding Director of the Africana Center,including Curriculum Vitae of Anu Meacham
2007
Box 1, Folder 9 June 2010: correspondence from Geoffrey Guarano
2010
Box 1, Folder 10 July 2010: correspondence regarding merit increase
2010
Box 1, Folder 11 May 2012: University of Virginia Press
2012
Box 1, Folder 12 April 2012: Tufts regarding director of American Studies Program
2012
Box 1, Folder 13 October 2012: from Nathan Wolff regarding position application
2012
Box 1, Folder 14 March 2013: Tufts regarding sabbatical leave
2013
Box 1, Folder 15 September 2013: to Professor Norbert Schaffeld regarding position at University of Bremen
2013
Box 1, Folder 16 March 2017: from Michelle Commander
2017
Box 1, Folder 17 April 2017: from Anthony Monaco regarding Presidential Award for Civic Life
2017
Box 1, Folder 18 January 2018: regarding Student Accessibility Services, Tufts
2018
Box 1, Folder 19 n.d: regarding Students Promoting Equality Awareness and Compassion
n.d.

Career Development, 1994-2018

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 20 Creatures for the Culture, Inc: artists and Curricula Vitarum
ca.2001
Box 1, Folder 21 Earlham College: Sexuality out of Place graduate conference
2006
Box 1, Folder 22 Ford Fellows conference papers
2011
Box 1, Folder 23 Ford Foundation fellowship award
2001
Box 1, Folder 24 Graduate Consortium of Women's Studies: retreat agenda
2012
Box 1, Folder 25 Interdisciplinary Studies of Race and Diaspora (ISRD) proposal
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 26 Mobile Akademie Berlin: contract agreement
2017
Box 1, Folder 27 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, film descriptions
1996
Box 1, Folder 28 Princeton University: Honoraria
2017
Box 1, Folder 29 Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University): fellowship application
2014-2015
Box 1, Folder 30 Rockefeller Foundation: residency program fellowship
2001
Box 1, Folder 31 Stanford Humanities Center: fellowship application
2014-2015
Box 1, Folder 32 Transnational American Studies Program proposal
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 33 Tufts University: African + American Faculty
2004-2005
Box 1, Folder 34 Tufts University:Arts and Sciences Faculty Meeting materials
2013
Box 1, Folder 35 Tufts University: Barack Obama and American Democracy symposium pamphlet
2010
Box 1, Folder 36 Tufts University: The Black Cultural Studies Seminar flyer
2004
Box 1, Folder 37 Tufts University: business cards of C. Sharpe
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 38 Tufts University: course proposals
ca. 2007
Box 1, Folder 39 Tufts University: English Dept. Faculty lists
2013, 2018
Box 1, Folder 40 Tufts University: Enlightenment Science Fiction, Advanced Undergrad Seminar
2012
Box 1, Folder 41 Tufts University: event program for Anna Deavere Smith
2005
Box 1, Folder 42 Tufts University: faculty positions, searches, and hires
2012
Box 1, Folder 43 Tufts University: faculty retreat on interdisciplinary programs, notes
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 44 Tufts University: lecture flyer for Jared Sexton
2012
Box 1, Folder 45 Tufts University: Office of the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences
2012
Box 1, Folder 46 Tufts University: Organization of Black Faculty
2007
Box 1, Folder 47 Tufts University: proposed summer institute, race and pedagogy
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 48 Tufts University: requests for new majors and minors
2012
Box 1, Folder 49 Tufts University: Significant Impact Nominations for Sharpe
2008-2012
Box 1, Folder 50 Tufts University: Sophomore experience survey
2005
Box 1, Folder 51 Tufts University: Steering Committee Meeting agenda
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 52 Tufts University: Students for Educational Equality memo
2010
Box 1, Folder 53 Tufts University: tenure dossier
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 54 Tufts University: tenure letters
2004
Box 1, Folder 55 Tufts University: Working Group on Race and Ethnicity
2012
Box 1, Folder 56 Tufts University: 18th English Graduate Conference program, "On Difficulty"
2006
Box 1, Folder 57 University of California, Irvine: visit schedule, correspondence, research proposal
2011
Box 1, Folder 58 University of California, Los Angeles: approved electives list
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 59 Unknown institution: application for FRAC leave
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 60 Various Institutions: Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994 conference
1994

Writings and Related, 1989-2018

Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 61 Black Life and Carceral Cities, speaker introductions
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 62 "Black Life, Annotated" article and draft
ca. 2016
Box 1, Folder 63 "Blackness, Sexuality, and Entertainment" article and draft
2012
Box 1, Folder 64 "Diaspora and Kinship" for Lose Your Mother symposium
2018
Box 1, Folder 65 "Dogeaters" lecture
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 66 "Embodiment in Cherrie Moraga's 'Loving in the War Years'"
1991
Box 1, Folder 67 "Fragmentation of Women and Nation in Bessie Head's 'A Question of Power' and 'Where Rainclouds Gather'" graduate paper
1989
Box 1, Folder 68 "How A Girl Becomes A Ship"
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 69 "In the Wake": chapter précis
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 70 "In the Wake": drafts of chapters 1 +2
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 71 "In the Wake": images
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 72 "In the Wake": notes and readings
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 73 "In the Wake": project proposal for grant
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 74 "In the Wake": proof
2016
Box 1, Folder 75 "In the Wake" talk at Caribbean Studies Association Grenada
2013
Box 1, Folder 76 "In the Wake" talk at Friedrich Alexander University Nuremberg
2013
Box 1, Folder 77 "Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles" essay in "Looking Forward Looking Black"
1999
Box 1, Folder 78 Karen Tei Yamashita welcome speech, Tufts University
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 79 "The Lie at the Center of Everything…" drafts
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 80 "The Materiality of [the] Black [Female Body]: Bodies Matter" notes
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 81 "Monstrous Intimacies" draft of chapter 1 and notes
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 82 "Monstrous Intimacies" draft of chapter 2
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 83 "Monstrous Intimacies": drafts of introduction (edited)
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 84 "Monstrous Intimacies: image rights
2008-2009
Box 1, Folder 85 "Monstrous Intimacies": Kara Walker images and slides
ca. 2000
Box 1, Folder 86 "Monstrous Intimacies" notes
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 87 "Monstrous Intimacies" notes on Gertrude Stein
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 88 "Monstrous Intimacies" proposal draft (partial)
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 89 "Monstrous Intimacies" readers reports
2006
Box 1, Folder 90 "Monstrous Intimacies" visual material
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 91 "Racialized Fantasies on the Internet" essay in "Signs"
1999
Box 1, Folder 92 "This American Life" draft
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 93 "Troubling Trauma: Black Performances" partial draft
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 94 Untitled article with peer-review notes
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 95 Untitled essay on Bessie Head
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 96 Untitled lecture, University of Rochester
2016
Box 1, Folder 97 Untitled talk, Hobart and Williams Smith (?)
n.d.
Box 1, Folder 98 Untitled, Tufts Undergraduate Research Symposium talk drafts
2017

Teaching, 1997-2018

Container Description Date
Box 2, Folder 1 African American Literature 1865-1920
1998
Box 2, Folder 2 American Women Writers, course materials (1 of 4)
2013
Box 2, Folder 3 American Women Writers, course materials (2 of 4)
2013
Box 2, Folder 4 American Women Writers, course materials (3 of 4)
2013
Box 2, Folder 5 American Women Writers, course materials (4 of 4)
2013
Box 2, Folder 6 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (1 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 7 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (2 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 8 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (3 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 9 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (4 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 10 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (5 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 11 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (6 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 12 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (7 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 13 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (8 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 14 Black Feminist Theories, readings and notes (9 of 9)
2010-2012
Box 2, Folder 15 Black World Literature: lecture notes and readings (1 of 2)
ca. 2007
Box 2, Folder 16 Black World Literature: lecture notes and readings (2 of 2)
ca. 2007
Box 2, Folder 17 Geographies of Race: course materials (1 of 2)
2004
Box 2, Folder 18 Geographies of Race: course materials (2 of 2)
2004
Box 2, Folder 19 Home Is Where the Hatred Is notes and readings (1 of 2)
ca. 2003
Box 2, Folder 20 Home Is Where the Hatred Is notes and readings (2 of 2)
ca. 2003
Box 3, Folder 1 ImaginingSlavery and Freedom: course materials (1 of 2)
ca. 2018
Box 3, Folder 2 ImaginingSlavery and Freedom: course materials (2 of 2)
ca. 2018
Box 3, Folder 3 In the Wake notes, readings, syllabi
ca. 2016
Box 3, Folder 4 Literature and Law, notes, readings, discussion posts
2007
Box 3, Folder 5 Literature Con II notes, readings, syllabus
1997
Box 3, Folder 6 Memory for Forgetting course materials (1 of 3)
2011
Box 3, Folder 7 Memory for Forgetting course materials (2of 3)
2011
Box 3, Folder 8 Memory for Forgetting course materials (2 of 3)
2011
Box 3, Folder 9 Monstrous Intimacies notes and readings
ca. 2008
Box 3, Folder 10 Multi-Ethnic Literature notes and readings, syllabus (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 11 Multi-Ethnic Literature notes and readings, syllabus (2 of 2)
n.d.
Box 3, Folder 12 Partially Buried: Race and Visual Culture, notes, readings, syllabus
2000
Box 3, Folder 13 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (1 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 14 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (2 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 15 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (3 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 16 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (4 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 17 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (5 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 18 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (6 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 3, Folder 19 Queer Diasporas notes and research materials (7 of 7)
ca. 2011
Box 4, Folder 1 Race and the Senses notes and readings (1 of 3)
2012
Box 4, Folder 2 Race and the Senses notes and readings (2 of 3)
2012
Box 4, Folder 3 Race and the Senses notes and readings (3 of 3)
2012
Box 4, Folder 4 Unidentified course: notes (annotated)
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 5 Unidentified course: oral exam procedure
2016
Box 4, Folder 6 Unidentified course: syllabus
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 7 (Un)Making Identities…, including lecture on "Beloved"
ca. 2007
Box 4, Folder 8 Various courses: miscellaneous attendance lists
2013
Box 4, Folder 9 Various courses: new course proposals and syllabi
ca. 1997
Box 4, Folder 10 Various courses: orals list
ca. 2016
Box 4, Folder 11 Various courses: readings (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 12 Various courses: readings (2 of 2)
n.d.

Research, 1990-2018

Research by Author (Last Name)

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 13 A-B
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 14 C-D
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 15 E-G
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 16 H
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 17 Hartman, Saidya: various articles
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 18 J-K
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 19 L-M
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 20 Moten, Fred: various essays
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 21 N-R
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 22 S (including Spillers' essays)
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 23 T
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 24 V-Z
n.d.

Research by Subject

Container Description Date
Box 4, Folder 25 Adoption/fostering project readings
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 26 Affirmative action and reverse racism research
2000
Box 4, Folder 27 Afro-German articles: Gunning, Henderson, Scott
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 28 ArtNews magazine clippings
ca. 2000
Box 4, Folder 29 The black body, intimacy, queerness, diaspora notes and readings (1 of 3)
n.d.
Box 4, Folder 30 The black body, intimacy, queerness, diaspora notes and readings (2 of 3)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 1 The black body, intimacy, queerness, diaspora notes and readings (3 of 3)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 2 Blackness and Queerness: secondary sources
n.d
Box 5, Folder 3 Canadian First Nations Short Fiction
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 4 Cliff, Michelle: various articles
nd.
Box 5, Folder 5 "In the Wake" source material
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 6 Japanese literature and internment notes
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 7 The Principles of Environmental Justice
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 8 Monstrous Intimacies, research on Maru for chapter 2
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 9 "Reparations" pamphlet
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 10 "Sounding Black" notes and essays
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 11 Syllabi for reference
ca. 1995-1998
Box 5, Folder 12 United States Constitution
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 13 Various topics: articles and essays by unidentified authors (1 of 2)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 14 Various topics: articles and essays by unidentified authors (2of 2)
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 15 Various topics: magazine clippings
1997-2004
Box 5, Folder 16 Various topics: newspaper clippings
ca. 1996-2000, 2016
Box 5, Folder 17 Various topics: online articles
ca. 2010-2013

Print and Visual Materials

Container Description Date
Box 5, Folder 18 photograph
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 19 postcards
n.d.
Folder Pembroke Center Archives catch-all oversize box 2XXX Posters
n.d.
Box 5, Folder 20 slides
n.d.