Patrick Michael Teed

Postdoctoral Fellow
patrick.teed@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • African American Literature
  • American Literature
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Gender and Sexuality Studies
  • Literary and Critical Theory
  • Science, Health, and Technology Studies
  • Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature

Biography

Patrick Michael Teed is a Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in the theoretical humanities, his scholarship covers a wide terrain of interests, including: Black critical theory; psychoanalysis; racial slavery and abolitionism; continental philosophy; and science and technology studies. His available essays can be found in: differences, CR: New Centennial Review, Social & Cultural Geography, Rhizomes, TOPIA, and Lateral and he guest edited a special issue of TOPIA focusing on Black critical theoretical approaches to the keywords care and cure. He 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.

List of Publications 

  • Teed, Patrick and Christopher McAteer. 2025. "Dissonant Seas: Black Critical Theory, river run thee, and the Counterpoint to Critical Ocean Geography." Social and Cultural Geography.
  • Teed, Patrick. 2024. "Enlightenment By Any Other Name." Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. no. 13 (2).
  • Teed, Patrick. 2023. "Whither Abolition?". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, no. 34 (2): 27 - 57.
  • Teed, Patrick, Marcelle-Anne Fletcher, and Joshua Falek. 2023. “The Ruse of Love: Intimacy, Captivity, and Racial Slavery in Netflix’s Bridgerton.” CR: New Centennial Review, no. 23 (2): 93 - 124.
  • Teed, Patrick. 2023. "The Phantasm of Black Studies." TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, no. 47: 275 - 281.
  • ​Amponsah, Evelyn, Marcelle-Anne Fletcher, Laura McKinley, and Patrick Teed. 2023. "Black Studies In/As Antagonism: Notes from the Field.” TOPIA: A Journal of Canadian Cultural Studies, no. 47: 245 - 250.
  • ​Falek, Joshua and Patrick Teed. 2023. “White Suicide, Black Genocide: The Psychic Life of Labor and Freedom in Anti-Masking Movements.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, no. 39.