SA Smythe
Dr. SA Smythe (they / them) is a poet, transdisciplinary artist, translator, and critical theorist committed to black belonging beyond all borders and studying how archives of otherwise possibility come to be narrated, realised, and remembered. Formerly an assistant professor in the Departments of Gender Studies and African American Studies at UCLA, Smythe joined the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information as Assistant Professor of Black Studies and the Archive in July 2022. They are the editor of “Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity” special issue for Postmodern Culture and author of the forthcoming monograph, Where Blackness Meets the Sea: On Crisis, Culture, and the Black Mediterranean and poetry collection, proclivity.