Patrick Michael Teed is a PhD Candidate in the Social and Political Thought Programme at York University and Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

As an interdisciplinary scholar working within the theoretical humanities, Patrick’s scholarship covers a wide terrain of interests, including: Black critical theory; psychoanalysis; racial slavery and abolitionism; continental philosophy; and science and technology studies. His peer-reviewed essays can be found in: differences, New Centennial Review, Rhizomes, Social & Cultural Geography, 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. His second, Whither Abolition?, provides an immanent critique of abolitionist politics and theory.

His research has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the University of Toronto, and York University.

In addition to his scholarship, Patrick is a playwright, dramaturg, and cultural worker. He has developed plays including Visiting My Mother and Other Repetition Compulsions, Uninvited Guests, Meat(less) Loaf, and It’s a Beautiful Day for Brunch and to Arrest the Cops That Killed Breonna Taylor with Afterlife Theatre, a company he founded with his collaborator Carly Billings. Their work has been funded by the Ontario Arts Council, Hamilton City Enrichment Fund, and Hamilton Festival Theatre Company. 

​Patrick lives in Toronto, Ontario with his partner and their sphynx cat, Lucille Bald.