About
I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. I am a Black Studies scholar focusing on African American culture from the 18th century to the present. I also study the Haitian Revolution and the Northern Kingdom period, as well as intersections between African American and French culture. My first book, The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture, follows this literary trope from the 17th century to the early 20th in European, West Indian and North American literature and historiography. It is forthcoming at the University of Georgia Press (Spring 2019). I have translated the French treatise Free Jazz/Black Power by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli (Mississippi UP: 2015), and edited a scholarly edition of Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke UP: 2013; co-edited with Paul Youngquist). My articles have been published in Studies in American Fiction, the African American Review, Criticism, and Notes and Queries. I am the current President of the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS) and of the Amiri Baraka Society. Education
Ph.D., English, The Pennsylvania State University (2012)
M.A., English, The Pennsylvania State University (2008)
M.A., English, Université Paris-IV La Sorbonne, France (2001)
B.A., English, Université Paul Verlaine, Metz, France (1998)
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The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture. (University of Georgia Press, Spring 2019)
An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions. Co-editor. with Marlene L. Daut and Marion Rohrleitner (in progress, UVA Press)
