Chair, Africana Studies, Barnard College at Columbia University in New York.
Professor, Africana Studies and English Literature.
Books: Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics (Fordham University Press); Unconfessed (novel—Other Press, USA; Kwela Books, South Africa; Querido, Netherlands); Imprendehora (poetry—Kwela Books, South Africa); Castaway (poetry—Duke University Press).
Advisory Board Member, Africa List, Seagull Books.
Advisory Board, Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Advisory Board, Consortium for Critical Interdiciplinary Studies, Barnard.
Email: ychristi@barnard.edu