Speakers
- Faith Smith
- Brandeis University, Associate Professor
Faith Smith teaches at Brandeis University. She studies the aesthetic strategies of writers and artists contending with the legacies of slavery and indentureship, feminist engagements with the state in the wake of globalization, and the resonance of archival histories of intimacy and loss in the present. She is completing “Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century,” a reading of the imperial present just before the First World War. Another book manuscript, “Dread Intimacies,” examines sovereignty, intimacy and violence in twenty-first-century fiction and visual culture.