Researcher + Writer + Scholar + Comrade
ABOUT ME & THE WORK
The Haiti I inherited from my elders while here lòt bò dlo, its rich literature that I can now read in French and English, and the vastness of Haitianist scholarship fuel my curiosities in ways not always apparent, not always present in my citational work. Onè.
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I arrived at my current project, Beyond A Question of Extraction, following years of travels and sojourns outside the United States. I was not only a visitor to these places—the United Kingdom, France, Haiti, Senegal—but also a student while in these places. Through the experience of immersion, I learned to embrace the disorientation that results from inhabiting another geographical and linguistic space. Disorientation indeed troubles my own received knowledge, and yet I find it germane to knowledge seeking and production.
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Abridged C.V. below. Full C.V. provided upon request, Contact.
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
Adjunct Faculty African American and African Diaspora Studies Department Columbia University
EDUCATION
PhD Comparative Literature & Literary Theory University of Pennsylvania
MPhil Comparative Literature Université de Paris VIII Vincennes/Saint-Denis
BA Afro-American Studies & Philosophy Smith College
AWARDS
2022 | Dean's Scholar University of Pennsylvania
2021-22 | Dissertation Completion Fellowship American Council of Learned Societies
2020-21 | Penfield Fellowship for Dissertation Research University of Pennsylvania
2019 | Mellon Mays Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant Social Science Research Council
2019-20 | Lapidus Center for Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery New York Public Library
PAST APPOINTMENTS
2022-25 | Mellon Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities Columbia University
2018-19 | Instructor of Record University of Pennsylvania
2012-16 | English Instructor École Nationale Supérieur d'Architecture de Paris la Villette
2013-14 | English Language Assistant École Nationale de Commerce