Reid Writers of Color Keynote: Saidiya Hartman

Join the English department for a reading, keynote talk, and Q&A with Saidiya Hartman, the 2025 Reid Writer.

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother, and Scenes of Subjection. She has been a MacArthur Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Cullman Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar. She is a Professor at Columbia University and lives in New York.

Since 2008, The Reid Family Writers of Color Reading Series has brought a procession of some of the most celebrated writers of color to Fordham.

The English department at Fordham is deeply grateful to the Reid Family for their generosity.