Education:
- PhD Harvard University, 1994
Research Interests:
19th century French studies; Haiti; Creole studies.
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. I have developed a Creole studies sequence at Duke. Duties:
Undergraduate advisor, French Recent Publications (More Publications)
- D. Jenson. "Francophone World Literature (littérature-monde) and Cosmopolitanism: Citizen of the World without the Citizen?." Francophone Postcolonial Studies (Accepted, 2010).
- D. Jenson. "Placing Haiti in Geopsychoanalytic Space: Toward a Postcolonial Concept of Traumatic Mimesis." Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Sovereignty.. Accepted, 2010.
- D. Jenson. "Surrealism and the Avant Garde Novel, and The Decadent Novel." The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.. Accepted, 2010.
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