Dr. SA Smythe

Prof. SA Smythe is a critical theorist, multi-instrumentalist, transmedia storyteller, and educator. Since 2022, Smythe has worked as associate professor of Black Studies & the Archive and the Founding Director of the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. Their work moves across Black Studies, trans and disability justice, sound, performance, poetics, anticolonial thought, migrant justice, and Black Mediterranean study. Smythe is the editor of Transnational Black Studies (Liverpool UP), Troubling the Grounds: Global Configurations of Blackness, Nativism, and Indigeneity (vols. 1&2) (Postmodern Culture), and is the author of Where Blackness Meets the Sea and [proclivity] (forthcoming) and many creative works of performance, poetry, and sound composition. The CBP’s research, public programmes, publications, partnerships, and creative-political vision.