Education:

• PhD Harvard University, 1994

Research Interests:

I work on the 19th century (reaching back to the revolutionary era) in France and in the New World colonies and postcolonies of France. I explore French and Kreyòl revolutionary-era texts by the African diaspora in Haiti in a forthcoming monograph, "Beyond The Slave Narrative." Another monograph under preparation, "The Haiti/Napoleon Nexus," extends my earlier work on imitation and trauma ("Trauma and Its Representations: The Social LIfe of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France"), to the colonizer/colonized interface. In related but separate research, I also pursue new developments in theories of imitation or representation in fields as varied as neuroscience (mirror neurons) and new virtual technologies of self-projection.

Undergraduate advisor, French

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Sarah, An English Translation, with Doris Kadish, (New York: MLA Editions, 2008) xli and 96 pp.. , 2009.
2.  Sarah, The Original French Text, with Doris Kadish (New York: MLA Editions, 2008) xxxvi and 93 pp.. , 2009.
3.  “Toussaint Louverture, Spin Doctor? Launching the Haitian Revolution in the French Media” in Tree of Liberty: Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, ed. Doris Garraway (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2008) pp.41-62. , 2008.
4.  “Fétichisme de la marchandise: la poésie des courtisanes noires ou de couleur à Saint-Domingue,” in Relire l’histoire et la littérature haïtiennes, ed. Christiane Ndiaye (Port-au-Prince: Presses nationales d’Haïti, 2007) pp.27-56. , 2007.
5.  “Before Malcolm X, Dessalines: A ‘French’ Tradition of Black Atlantic Radicalism,” International Journal of Francophone Studies, special issue on “Boundaries and Limits of the Postcolonial,” co-edited by Alec Hargreaves and Jean-Marc Mourra, 10:3 (2007): pp.329-342. , 2007.