Michael Sawyer

Michael Sawyer is currently Associate Professor of African American Literature & Culture in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. His work is multi-disciplinary, employing political theory, philosophy, critical theory, literary criticism, and aesthetic theory to think about the question of the Black subject. Michael has published two monographs, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis (Palgrave:2018) and Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X (Pluto:2020) and is work on several new book length projects. In addition to writing and teaching, he has co-curated several exhibitions that take up questions of Black Subjectivity most recently a sonic assemblage with Grammy Award Winning artist Nicholas Payton that interrogates police violence and an exhibition opening in September of 2022 at the American Writers Museum called “Dark Testament: A Century of Black Writers on Justice”.