Former Graduate Students
Dr. Mary Barr (Sociology) earned her Ph.D. in 2008. Her dissertation “Black and White Together: Constructing Integration while establishing de facto Segregation” uses Evanston, Illinois as a case study to examine how social categories of race, class and gender are constructed and reproduced under the guise of racial integration. Her research and teaching interests include racial formation processes in the US, community studies, educational inequality, qualitative methodologies (historical and ethnographic), and 20th century African American history. View CV.
Dr. Louise Bernard (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in December 2005. She received her B.A. in Drama from the University of Manchester and M.A.s in Theatre History and English literature from the University of Indiana. Dr. Bernard is currently Curator of American Literature, Drama, and Prose Writings at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her research and teaching interests cover 19th and 20th century African American literature, 20th century modern American literature and drama/ performance/ film and Anglophone Caribbean cultural productions/ post-colonial theory. Her dissertation is entitled, "National Maladies: Narratives of Race and Madness in Modern America."
Dr. Lori Brooks (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in December 2001. Her dissertation is entitled "The Negro in the New World: the Cultural Politics of Race, Nation, and Empire, 1885-1911." She is now an Assistant Professor of American Culture and the Center for African and Afroamerican Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Jayna Brown (American Studies) is a proud member of the African American Studies Department's first graduating class and currently Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her book, Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Modern Body, is published by Duke University Press. She has also published on African American race film and the black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Her two current projects are a series of essays on race, technology and utopias in speculative fiction and global pop music, and another project on black women and post punk music in Britain. Her classes at UCR include: African American Women Intellectuals and Artists, Race and Performance and African American Literature.
Dr. Kimberly J. Brown (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2006 and was also a recipient of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize. She came to Yale with a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in Africana Studies and English Literature. Her dissertation examined historical mother / warrior figures and the ways in which they are replicated in African American Literature. Dr. Brown is currently Assistant Professor of English at Northeastern University.
Dr. Judith Casselberry (Anthropology) earned her degree in May 2008. She is the first to receive a joint doctorate in African American Studies and Anthropology from Yale University. Her dissertation, entitled “‘Blessed Assurance’: Belief and Power Among African American Apostolic Women,” examines the workings of spiritual authority within a New York based Holiness-Pentecostal denomination and if, when, and how it enables a particular form of female power. Her research and teaching interests include women, gender, and religion, examining ways women negotiate power within religious institutions that incorporate doctrines of female submission; the anthropology of Black Americans in the United States, exploring “racial” authenticity, identity construction, and Black public cultures as they change over time; and music and social movements, analyzing the intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of religious, spiritual, political, and social consciousness through the production of musical genres. Dr. Casselberry is a recipient of the 2008-2009 inaugural Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for African American Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Production and Engineering from Boston’s Berklee College of Music and an MA in Ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University. As a vocalist/guitarist, she performs nationally and internationally with Toshi Reagon and BigLovely. Over the past seven years she has participated in European tours of “The Temptation of Saint Anthony,” directed by Robert Wilson with book and libretto by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Dr. Erin D. Chapman (History) earned a Ph.D. in May 2006. Previously, she received a B.A. from Stanford University in African American History. She focuses on African American gender ideologies and cultural history. Her dissertation, "Prove It On Me: New Negro Women in Politics and Popular Culture," considers representations of black women in modern forms of cultural expression and early twentieth century racial advancement politics. Beginning Fall 2010, Dr. Chapman will be Assistant Professor of History at George Washington University. During the 2009-10 academic year, Dr. Chapman was awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship at Princeton's Center for African American Studies.
Dr. Radiclani Clytus (American Studies) is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University. His research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century (African) American literature and visual culture, history of the book studies, and literary theory. He has received fellowships from the New-York Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Ford Foundation. He is the editor of Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries (University of Michigan, 2000), a compilation of prose works by Yusef Komunyakaa, and is the author of articles on nineteenth-century circum-Atlantic visual culture. His forthcoming book, Envisioning Slavery: American Abolitionism and the Primacy of the Visual, examines the ocularcentric roots of American anti-slavery discourse.
Dr. Cheryl Finley (Art History) is currently Assistant Professor of Art History Cornell University. She frequently writes and lectures about African diaspora art history, photography, contemporary art, heritage and tourism and the politics of memory. She is author of several articles, books and essays, some of which have been translated into German, Spanish and Portuguese, including Imaging African Art: Documentation and Experimentation. Her current manuscripts include Committed to Memory: the Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic Imagination, a cultural history of the image of the slave ship, and a monograph on the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, both to be published in the coming year. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, Dr. Finley's reserach has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among others
Dr. Anita Gallers (Spanish and Portuguese) earned her Ph.D. in December 2000. Her dissertation, "Enslavement and Masculinity in Afro-Hispanic Narrative," discusses works by Juan Francisco Manzano (Cuba), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (Cuba), Quince Duncan (Costa Rica) and Cubena (Panama). Dr. Gallers has been an Assistant Professor at Simon's Rock College of Bard since the fall of 1999. She teaches Spanish language and literature as well as literature in translation, including Afro-Hispanic literature.
Dr. Eric Grant's (History) dissertation is entitled "'Message in Our Music': Spirituals and Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, 1871-1945." He is currently an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Ohio University in Athens, OH. His research focuses on the generational struggles of African Americans and their use of the spirituals as a weapon in the fight for African American human and civil rights. Eric's work extends the range of roles that historians have traditionally assigned to race and culture.
Dr. Joshua Guild (History) earned his Ph.D. in 2007. His research and teaching interests include 20th century African American social, political, and cultural history; American urban history; and the making of the modern black diaspora. His book manuscript situates the Second Great Migration within a diasporic framework by connecting black migrations to Brooklyn, New York to the parallel settlement of West Indians in London in the mid-twentieth century. Dr. Guild is currently Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on the civil rights era, memory and African American history, and African American urban history. Dr. Guild's publications include “Metropolitan migrations, diasporic spaces, and the black world remade,” in Maroon: The Yale Journal of African-American Studies (May 2006) and his articles-in-progress: "To Make That Someday Come: Shirley Chisholm's Radical Politics of Possibility" (forthcoming) and "Imagining New Orleans" (with Andrew Horowitz; under review)
Dr. Peter Hallward's (French) dissertation is entitled "Immanent Authorities: Literal Mysticism in the works of Deleuze, Sarduy, Sarraute, Dib, Glissant, and Johnson." He is now Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University in London. His books include, Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (2007), Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (2006), Badiou: A Subject to Truth (2003), and Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific (2001). Dr. Hallward is currently at work on The Will of the People, which aims to develop and defend a notion of trans-individual political will, understood as a rational, deliberate, and autonomous capacity for collective self-determination. In addition to canonical philosophical accounts of the will, it will draw in particular on the political works of Rousseau, Kant, Fichte and Hegel. It will supplement analysis of these ideas with examination of competing notions of the 'will of the people' that emerged through the revolutionary struggles that began in the late eighteenth century, and with critical discussion of the quasi-voluntarist accounts of political agency advanced by more recent thinkers like Gramsci, Lukacs, Sartre and Badiou. Dr. Hallward has supervised and examined graduate work on recent French thought, philosophical materialism, beur literature and francophone African and Caribbean literature. He convenes a monthly reading group dedicated to contemporary philosophy and critical theory.
Dr. Françoise N. Hamlin (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2004. Her dissertation is entitled "'The Book Hasn't Closed, The Story Isn't Finished': Continuing Histories of the Civil Rights Movement." It won the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize from the Southern Historical Association in 2005 and the Franklin L. Riley Dissertation Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society in 2006. Her interests include African-American literature and history, black feminisms and U.S. history, culture, and politics. During the 2007-2008 academic year, she was a Charles Warren fellow at Harvard University. She is now an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University.
Dr. Robin Hayes (Political Science) earned her Ph.D. in May 2006. Dr. Hayes specializes in the fields of Comparative Politics, Contemporary Theory and Race, Ethnicity and Politics. After receiving a B.A in Metropolitan Studies from NYU, she worked in the non-profit sector with the Urban Justice Center and IFCO/Pastors for Peace, which facilitates human rights delegations and material aid shipments to Chiapas, Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua. While in graduate school, she served as co-founder and facilitator of the Black Resistance Reading Group and program coordinator for the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics. Her dissertation examined the ways in which institutions indigenous to the African diaspora facilitate transnational exchanges between social movements. In addition, she recently produced a documentary about the historical relationship between African Americans and Afro-Cubans. Her scholarship has been published in Post Identity and Maroon: The Yale Journal of African American Studies.
Dr. Deborah Ann Hughes (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2003. Her dissertation is entitled "Revising the American Picture Gallery: Gender, Race, and Popular Visual Culture." She is currently residing in Iceland.
Dr. Viviana Hurtado (Spanish and Portuguese) earned her Ph.D. in December 2001. Her dissertation is entitled (W)rites of Passage: Developing New Conceptions of Ethnicity in the Contemporary Latino Bildungsroman." She is currently a Washington, DC based correspondent for ABC NewsOne. Fluent in five languages, Dr. Hurtado was a correspondent and anchor with KRGV-TV in Brownsville, Texas, reporting on the US-Mexico border and general immigration issues, and the North America correspondent for Al Jazeera English. In addition to her television work, Dr. Hurtado is also an experienced print reporter and worked as a freelance contributing reporter for the New York Times in Mexico City.
Dr. Jonathan Kidd (English) earned his B.A. with Honors in African and African American Studies and English from the University of Michigan in 1997. In May 2004, he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation entitled, “Within the Bosom of the Bard: Shakespeare and Social Death”. While at Yale, Jonathan co-founded the theatre non-profit, Adam, Eve, and Steve Productions, Inc. and co-produced/co-directed the youth voter mobilization documentary, “Battleground For A New Generation”. Upon graduation from Yale, Jonathan received a post-doctoral fellowship at Pomona College where he wrote and directed a theatrical adaptation of Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” and organized the spring symposium, “Living Legacy: Black Theatre After August Wilson.” Dr. Kidd currently resides in Los Angeles where he is completing his first novel, teaching, and assisting others through his private practice, Walk the Walk Life Coaching.
Dr. Ferentz Lafargue (American Studies) earned his Ph.D. in May 2005. He is now Assistant Professor of Literature at the New School University. His research interests include African American and Caribbean Fiction, Post-Colonial Literatures and Anti-Colonial Theory.
Dr. Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu (History) is now Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She specializes is African American history from Reconstruction to the present with an emphasis on African American migration, social movements, and political resistance. Her forthcoming book, Jim Crow Rides This Train, examines the social and political impact of African American and West Indian sleeping car porters in Canada from 1880 to World War II. She recently published North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails.
Dr. Uri McMillan (American Studies) graduated cum laude from Rice University in 2003 with a B.A. in English. His research interests include black visual culture, performance studies, 20th century African-American literature, racial passing, and theories of plastic surgery and the body. He was co-organizer of "Regarding Michael Jackson: Performing Racial, Gender, and Sexual difference Center-Stage", a two-day academic conference held at Yale.
Dr. Manuella Meyer's (History) is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. Her current project examines the socio-political and medical terrain in which mental illness became a public health construct and its subsequent management in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Dr. Meyer explores the extent to which the gradual adoption of punitive views of insanity helped legitimize social and gender inequalities resulting from swift industrialization. She draw on works propelling socio-political and cultural discursive analysis that lie in the intersections of history, political theory, anthropology and public health.
Dr. Noelle Morrissette (English), who also earned an M.A. in African Studies, earned her Ph.D. in May 2002. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where she teaches African American, African, and Caribbean literatures. Her book manuscript on James Weldon Johnson's life and writings is currently under review at the University of Michigan Press. Morrissette's interests include African American biography, American law and literature, American cultural history, and African diasporic studies.
Dr. Rebecca Peabody (History of Art) earned her Ph.D. in May 2006 and received the Sylvia Ardyn Boone prize for her dissertatio,n "A Strategic Cut: Kara Walker's Art and Imagined Race in American Visual Culture." Previously, she completed a B.A. in English Literature, Philosophy, and Modern Dance at Iowa State University, and an M.A. in Art History at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her interests include the representation of race in the United States, and her research draws on a broad range of visual culture. Dr. Peabody is currently a Research Associate at the Getty Museum.
Dr. Ryan Poynter (French) earned his Ph.D. in May 2006. His dissertation, "Eroticism in Twentieth-Century Francophone Caribbean Literatures" earned the Margaret A. Peyre Prize, awarded by the French department. His interests include Caribbean literatures in French, English, and Spanish, as well as 16th century French writers, especially Rabelais. Dr. Poynter is Associate Director of Academic Affairs at New York University.
Dr. Leigh Raiford (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2003. Upon completing her degree, she was the Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. She is currently Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests include race, gender and visual culture with an emphasis on film and photography; race and racial formations of the United States; black feminism; memory studies; and black popular culture. Raiford is co-editor with Renee Romano of The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory and her work has appeared in American Quarterly, NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, English Language Notes and in the Coco Fusco/Brian Wallis edited collection Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. Raiford is currently completing a manuscript entitled, Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle, to be published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Dr. Stephen Ray's (Religious Studies) dissertation is entitled "Silenced By the Night: A Constructive Reconstrual of the Protestant Doctrine of Sin." He is the Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Before joining the Garrett-Evangelical faculty as professor of systematic theology, Dr. Ray was associate professor of African American studies and director of the Urban Theological Institute at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia; associate professor of theology and philosophy at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary; and lecturer at Yale Divinity School and Hartford Seminary. He is the author of two books: A Struggle from the Start: The Black Community of Hartford, 1639-1960 and Do No Harm: Social Sin and Christian Responsibility and co-author of Black Church Studies: An Introduction.
Dr. Emmanuel Raymundo (American Studies) was born in Manila and raised in New York City and Toronto. Dr. Raymundo is a specialist in 20th century US cultural history with particular attention to issues of race, nationalism, empire and biopolitical governance. His dissertation explored the intersection of racial, medical and nation-building discourses through the Culion Leper Colony that was established by the US occupational government in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century. His research and teaching interests include race, ethnicity, migration, diasporic communities, immigrant experiences and colonial literary production, especially autobiography and scientific writing. He is a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in African American studies at Princeton University.
Dr. Shana L. Redmond (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in 2008. Her dissertation, Anthem: Music and Politics in Diaspora, 1920-1970s, engages fifty plus years of social movement history in the African Diaspora and the role that music played in the organization and maintenance of these movements. In addition to music and social movements, Dr. Redmond's interests include comparative ethnic studies, labor studies, and identity formation. She is currently Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Qiana Robinson-Whitted (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2003. Her dissertation is entitled "African-American Literature and the Crisis of Faith." She is now Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on 20th century African-American literary engagements with the philosophy of religion and humanist thought. Her articles on Richard Wright's work have appeared in Southern Literary Journal and the forthcoming collection, From Around the World: Secular Authors and Biblical Perspectives, and her essay, "In My Flesh Shall I See God: Ritual Violence and Racial Redemption in 'The Black Christ'" was recently published in African American Review. Her book manuscript entitled, The Cup of Trembling: Divine Justice and the Problem of Evil in African-American Literature.
Dr. Besenia Rodriguez (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2006. She entered Yale after earning a B.A. with Honors in African American Studies and Education from Brown University. Her academic interests include radical antiracist and anti-imperialist movements in the 20th century, comparative racial formations, and black "Latin" American cultural and political history. Her work has been published in a Radical History Review special issue focusing on global and transnational dimensions of radical history, a Souls issue on the "The Legacy of Bandung," and in the anthology, Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line, edited by Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones. Dr. Rodriguez is currently Associate Dean of the College for Undergraduate Research at Brown University.
Dr. Rachel Roseman (American Studies) earned her Ph.D. in May 2006. Her dissertation is entitled, "Between the Country and the Kitchenette: Literary Excavations of Space and Self in the work of Henry James and Gwendolyn Brooks. Her interests include 19th and 20th century American and African American literature and the relationship between the production of gender and space in the modern novel.
Dr. Theresa Runstedtler (History) is a former professional dancer/actress from Canada. She chose to shift her passion for popular culture from the stage to the classroom. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her book project, entitled "Journeymen: Race, Boxing, and the Transnational World of Jack Johnson," explores the role of commercial culture in the rise of modern ideas about race, manhood, imperial control, and the body. In following the foreign travels of African American prizefighters, like the first-ever black World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson, her work shows that the transmission of popular ideas about race was one of the first examples of globalization in the late imperial age. Touring black athletes provoked spirited discussions about U.S. Jim Crow segregation and racial difference in places as far-flung as Sydney, London, Cape Town, Paris, and Havana. Professor Runstedtler's publications appear in Canadian Issues (Fall 2005) and In the Game: Race, Identity, and Sports in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005). Her research interests include the intersection of race, gender, and resistance in popular culture; transnational Black history encompassing English, French, and Spanish destinations; multiracial and multicultural histories; the history of empire and globalization; European race relations, and Black Canada. In 2006, she also co-founded a small business with Professor Stephen Balkaran (Central Connecticut State University) specializing in Diversity Training called Tri & Can Consulting.
Dr. Stephanie Sears (Sociology) earned her Ph.D. in May 2004. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology and co-director of African American Studies at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Sears' research interests include gender, race and ethnicity, youth cultures, and power and marginalization. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research examines the ways race, class, gender, sexuality, and generation intersect and interact in complex and contradictory ways often simultaneously reproducing oppression and facilitating empowerment. These theoretical concerns and interdisciplinary approach formed the basis of her current manuscript, Imagining Black Womanhood, in which she examines how Black women and girls work with and against each other to create safe space, construct identities and empower themselves. Her current research, Dance Lessons, builds upon these interests and asks how race, class, gender, sexuality and generational politics are created, performed and negotiated via dance.
Dr. Joseph Thompson's (English) is Assistant Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. African-American literature, twentieth-century literature. Dr. Thompson's research focuses on the representation of education in twentieth-century African American literature. Exploring the involvement of educational institutions and practices in the perpetuation of American racial ideology, he also examines how schools shaped black writers' fictional articulations of racial consciousness. He is currently at work on a book that explores these issues by focusing on the lives and works of Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, and Claude McKay.
Dr. Lucia Trimbur (Sociology) completed her PhD in 2006. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vera Institute from 2006-2008 and is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at John Jay College, City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests include race and racisms, gender, urban sociology and inequality, social theory, the sociology of crime and punishment, and ethnographic field methods
Dr. Anders Walker (History) earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, his J.D./M.A. from Duke University, and his Ph.D. from Yale in December 2003. His dissertation is entitled "The Ghost of Jim Crow: Law, Culture, and the Subversion of Civil Rights, 1954-1965. He is currently Assistant Professor of Law at John Jay College, City University of New York.
Dr. Ivy Wilson's (English) earned his Ph.D. in May 2002 and is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His recent essays on nineteenth-century U.S. literature have appeared in such journals as ESQ, Arizona Quarterly, and PMLA. His forthcoming book, Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Nationalism, interrogates how the figurations and tropes of blackness were used to produce the social equations that regulated the cultural meanings of U.S. citizenship.
Dr. Sonya Winton (Political Science) received her Ph.D. in 2007. In 1996, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Spelman College with a B.A. in Political Science and in 1999 she received an M.P.A from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), with a specialization in Environmental Public Policy. While at Yale, Dr. Winton co-founded a community theater company, Adam, Eve, & Steve Productions, Inc. and she co-produced/co-directed, Battleground for a New Generation, a documentary ($50,000 budget) that highlights the efforts of ten non-profit organizations seeking to politicize young voters during the 2004 presidential election (View Documentary Trailer). Upon completing her degree, Dr. Winton secured the esteemed Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Institute. She is currently at work on her book manuscript All Things Being Equal: The Politics of Environmental (In) Justice and her article “The Environmental Justice Movement: NAACP, National Urban League, & Secondary Marginalization in Black Los Angeles,” will appear in the forthcoming book Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities. Her research and teaching interests include: African American Politics, African American Political Thought, American Politics, Environmental Justice, Environmental History and Ideology, Environmental Public Policy, Poverty and Urban Policy, Race, Ethnicity & Politics and Social Movements.
Dr. Jennifer Wood (American Studies) received a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut, an Ed.M. from Harvard University, and an M.A. in African Studies from Yale prior to entering Yale's doctoral program in African American and American Studies. She is currently investigating sartorial, corporeal and sexual politics in the New Negro Renaissance. She teaches courses on Toni Morrison, the Harlem Renaissance, and African-American Literature from 1920 to the present. She also serves as the Dean of Ezra Stiles College.
Dr. Laurie Woodard's (History) teaching interests include African American identity formation and representation, women, performing arts, and cultural and political history. She is a recipient of a Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture research fellowship and will spend the fall semester working on her manuscript on the life and career of performing artist and civil rights activist Fredi Washington.
Dr. Laura Yow (English) earned her Ph.D. in December 2001 and is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Vassar College. Her research and teaching interests center on Anglophone Caribbean, Francophone Caribbean and African American literatures and cultures, with a particular focus on issues of trauma, memory and narrative ethics. She is currently at work on a book titled Faulkner’s Colonial Soldiers, which is a study of representations of race, imperialism and the limits of democratic sociability in William Faulkner’s world war fictions.
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