6TH ANNUAL TROUILLOT LECTURE + WORKSHOP WITH DR. KAIAMA GLOVER
WORKSHOP | MONDAY, APRIL 29th **10AM-12PM** HASKELL 315
LECTURE | MONDAY, APRIL 29th 3-4:30 PM HASKELL, 315
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Professor of French & Africana Studies at Barnard College, Kaiama L. Glover is author of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool University Press, 2010); co-editor of Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine for Yale French Studies (2016), of The Haiti Exception (Liverpool University Press 2016), and of the forthcoming Duke University Press Haiti Reader. She has published translations of Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (2014), Marie Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano (2016), René Depestre’s Hadriana in All My Dreams (2017) and, forthcoming with Duke University Press, Françoise Vergès’s The Wombs of Women: Capitalism, Racialization, and Feminism. She has also published articles in The French Review, Public Books, Esprit Créateur, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Haitian Literature, Small Axe, French Forum, and The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, among other journals.
Glover is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She is founding co-editor of the journal sx archipelagos: a small axe platform for digital practice and founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. Her most recent monograph, Disorderly Women: On Caribbean Community and the Ethics of Self-Regard, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Professor Glover is currently an inaugural Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris, France.