Area of Interest
Francophone Postcolonial Studies, French Caribbean Literature, Haitian Studies, Literature of the African Diaspora, Ecocriticism
Education & Training
- PhD, Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University (2005)
Representative Publications
Migration and Refuge: An Eco-Archive of Haitian Literature, 1982-2017 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019)
Free and French in the Caribbean: Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire and Narratives of Loyal Opposition (Indiana University Press, 2013)
“The Mémoire of the ‘First Soldier of the Republic of Saint Domingue.’” Journal of Haitian Studies 17.1 (Spring 2011), 88-105.
“Césaire Reads Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution and the Problem of Departmentalization.” Small Axe 15.1 (March 2011), 110-124.
Research Grants
CLAS Faculty Research Grant, 2013-14
Humanities Center Collaborative Research Grant, 2014
Dietrich School, Type I Research Grant, Summer 2014