Patrick Teed
Patrick Michael Teed is a Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and a Fellow at the Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in the theoretical humanities, his scholarship covers a wide terrain of interests, including: Black critical theory; psychoanalysis; abolitionism; continental philosophy; and science and technology studies. His available essays can be found in: Diacritics, differences, Lateral, New Centennial Review, Rhizomes, Social & Cultural Geography, and TOPIA. He guest edited a special issue of TOPIA focusing on Black critical theoretical approaches to care and cure, and is guest editing a 2028 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly on Christina Sharpe’s first monograph: Monstrous Intimacies.
Patrick is currently working on two book projects. His first, Deconstructing Life: Epigenesis, Antiblackness, interrogates the racism structural to critical theory’s enchantment with postgenomic science and his second, Whither Abolition?, provides an immanent critique of abolitionist literature and theory. These projects have been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, York University, and the University of Toronto.
In addition to his scholarship, Patrick is a playwright, dramaturg, and theatre creative, working primarily through his independent theatre company Afterlife Theatre. His cultural work has been funded by institutions such as the Ontario Arts Council, Hamilton City Enrichment Fund, and Hamilton Festival Theatre Company.
📧 patrick.teed@utoronto.ca