Teaching is one of my main creative contributions to freedom dreaming and community preparedness. I am accepting incoming PhD student advising1 queries2 in Fall 2024 and open to joining Master’s/PhD committees of students currently engaged in research in these and related areas across disciplinary formations. Primary teaching and advising areas:
- Black Mediterranean cultural production, literatures, politics, social movements
- postcolonial, Indigenous, anticolonial, and migration writing and theories
- Black queer & trans feminism, culture, and politics;
- histories and afterlives of colonialism, racial capitalism, and fascism;
- memory work and archives of repair and resistance; abolition and its futures;
- geographies of liberation, abolition, and transnationalism
- poetics, critical theory, craft, and literary criticism;
- border injustice, EU citizenship policies, literature and the law; and
- trans and black nonbinary theories, embodiment, and technē
Office Hours (for current students)
Postgraduate students who’ve been enrolled in Smythe’s courses can register for virtual office hours from the syllabus. If unaffiliated with the University of Toronto or UCLA, please get in touch here, listing “advising” or other reason. Due to volume of requests, Prof. Smythe is unable to meet with prospective students via Zoom, but welcomes a preliminary email conversation!
Current students in need of letters of recommendation or other written support, please read here.
SA Smythe, PhD 