Gauss Seminars in Criticism: Saidiya Hartman

The Humanities Council’s Spring 2026 Gauss Seminars in Criticism will be presented by Saidiya Hartman, University Professor at Columbia University. Her visit will comprise a public lecture on Wednesday, March 4 and a lunch seminar on Thursday, March 5. More details to follow.

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford, 1997, Norton, 2022); Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (Norton, 2019), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Mary Nickliss Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association.  She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2019 and was nominated as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. She is University Professor at Columbia University.