Doctoral Student, Social and Political Thought, LA&PS, 91亚色
Undergraduate Research Assistant
wiafe@yorku.ca
Sheba Abena Wiafe is currently completing her PhD at 91亚色 in the Social and Political Thought Program. Her research focuses on investigating the migratory movements of African women to Europe against the histories of the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade through Black critical theoretical and psychoanalytic approaches. Her written work is forthcoming with The Black Lexicon edited volume, and she is currently guest editing a special issue of SAQ focusing on the intellectual interventions of Christina Sharpe鈥檚 first monograph Monstrous Intimacies.
Keywords: Black Critical Theory, Migration, Slavery, Psychonanalysis, Continental Africa