Katherine McKittrick is a Professor in Gender Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. Her research spans black studies and cultural geography, anti-colonial studies and critical-creative methodologies. She had all her formal education in Canada.
Katherine McKittrick. Photo credit: Pauline Couper.
She first graduated with a BA in History and English Literature from the University of Ottawa before doing a second BAH in Women’s Studies at York University and then continued to MA and Ph.D. in the same field there.
Her most recent monograph, Dear Science and Other Stories, is a powerful exploration of black and anti-colonial methodologies. She is also the author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle which explores how black women’s geographies (focus on black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade) are meaningful sites of political opposition.
A book she co-edited, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place is a collection of essays addressing the racialized production of space. She has worked with and has been influenced by the works of the Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter.