MA, Romance Languages: French and Italian, University of Oregon, 2005
BA, French Culture, The Colorado College, 2003
Research Interests
Contemporary Francophone literature and culture, especially of the Caribbean
Contemporary French and Francophone philosophy
Race and diaspora studies, gender and sexuality studies, literature and politics
Italian culture
Translation
Professional/Community Affiliations
Modern Languages Association
Haitian Studies Association
Caribbean Studies Association
Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Courses Taught
French 250-251: French Composition and Conversation I and II
French 270-271: Main Currents of French Literature, I and II
French 301: Stylistics
French 309: Francophone Literature
French 340: Survey of Prose: Fictional and Non-Fictional
UCLR 100: Black Paris
FREN311: French Modernity
Publications/Research Listings
Jean-Claude Charles. A Reader's Guide, edited by Martin Munro and Eliana Văgălău, Liverpool University Press,May 2022.Jean-Claude Charles: A Reader’s Guide
“A part le bonheur, il n’y a rien d’essentiel: The Transnational Narrative Model in Maryse Condé’s Desirada.” Transnational Africana Women’s Fictions, edited by Cheryl Sterling, Routledge, 2021.
"Manhattan Blues: roman, partition ou scénario?" Revue Francofonia, n.80, Spring 2021
“I Once Knew a Man”, Intranqu'îllités n.5 – Éros, November 2020.
“L’éclatement volontaire des notions identitaires par la rencontre des imaginaires : La revue intranQu’îllités de James Noël et Pascale Monnin.” Francophonies d’Amérique, Number 49, Spring 2020.
"Jean-Claude Charles: Challenging the Notion of Global Literature,” Sites/Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, January 2015.
''I'm Still Falling: Jeffrey Goldstein on Vivian Maier.” The Buenos Aires Review, July 2014. (http://www.buenosairesreview.org/2014/0 7/ im-still-falling-jeffrey-goldstein-on-vivian-maier/)
English to French translation of "Neuropsychiatry and the Unconscious; or, the Biological Citizen", by Christopher Lane, Figures de la psychanalyse 2.6 (2013): 143-57.