Joint Appointment with African and African Diaspora Studies

Academic Degrees

Ph.D., A.M., Harvard University; B.A., University of Pennsylvania

Research Areas

Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, African Film, African Diasporic Literatures and Cultures, Haitian Studies, Violence and Representation, Human Rights in the Humanities

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

The Sway of Stigma: The Politics and Poetics of AIDS Representation in Le Président a-t-il le SIDA? and Spirit of Haiti. Small Axe 36 (November 2011): 62-79.

“A Travers l’Atlantique noire: l’imagerie de l’eau dans les textes des femmes haïtiennes.” Écrits d’Haïti: Perspectives sur la littérature haïtienne contemporaine (1986-2006). Ed. Nadève Ménard. Paris: Karthala, 2011. 163-76.

“Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: The Legacy of Haitian Feminism,” Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010. Ed. Martin Munro. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. 79-86.

“Cracks of Gender Inequality: Haitian Women After the Earthquake.” Haiti: Then and Now, Social Science Research Council Online. February 2010.

“Shadows and Bodies: Edwidge Danticat and African American Women’s Literature.” Haiti's Chérie: A Readers' Guide to Edwidge Danticat. Ed. Martin Munro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 52-65.

““Terre et chair: Rape, Land, and the Body in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams.” Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Marie Drews and Verena Theile. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 29-50.

“Beneath the Layers of Violence: Images of Rape in the Rwandan Genocide.” Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations. Ed. Lisa Cuklanz. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 246-66.

Recent Papers and Presentations

“Diaspora Disavowed: New Directions in Haitian Studies,” Africana Studies Department Colloquia, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 2012. 

“Histoire du mouvement contre la violence faite aux femmes en Haïti.”Organisation pour le développement, la santé et l’éducation. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 2012.

“Beyond Resilience: New Narratives of Haiti,” Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Black History Month Lecture. Woods Hole, MA, February 2012.

“Crisis Among the Living: Catastrophe and the Humanities in Post-Earthquake Haiti,” Africana Studies and the Fate of the Humanities. Brown University, Providence, RI, December 2011.

“Revolutionary Dreams: The Global Black Feminist Imagination.” Keynote Lecture. The Women of Color Collective. University of Washington, Seattle, May 2011.

“Performing the Haitian Diaspora: the Evolution of Wyclef Jean.” Black History Month Keynote Lecture. Clark University, Worcester MA, February 2011.

Public Radio International. WGBH. The Callie Crossley Show. Discussion about Lynn Nottage’s Ruined and Rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. February 2011.

“Hearing Haiti’s Voices: History, Culture and Catastrophe.” Weston/Wayland Interfaith Council Keynote Address. Weston, MA, January 2011.

Ruined, Talkback/post-play discussion. The Huntington Theater. Boston, MA, January 2011.

“’If I Was President’: Wyclef Jean, Performance and the [Haitian] Politics of Representation.” Mellon-Mays New England Meeting Keynote Lecture, Boston MA, September 2010.

"Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: The Legacy of Haitian Feminism," Haiti Rising: Haiti History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010. Ed. Martin Munro. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. 79-86.

Régine Jean-Charles. "Cracks of Gender Inequality: Haitian Women After the Earthquake." Haiti: Now and Next, Social Science Research Council Online. February 2010. Online publication.

Review, "Fanm se Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, the Pillar of Society." SIGNS: Films for the Feminist Classroom Ed. Karen Alexander. 2.1 (Spring 2010). Online.

"Shadows and Bodies: Edwidge Danticat and African American Women’s Literature." Haiti's Chérie: A Readers' Guide to Edwidge Danticat. Ed. Martin Munro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 52-65.

“Terre et chair: Rape, Land, and the Body in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams.” Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Marie Drews and Verena Theile. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 29-50.

“Beneath the Layers of Violence: Images of Rape in the Rwandan Genocide.” Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations. Ed. Lisa Cuklanz. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 246-66.

“Critical Reception and Representation of Sexual Violence in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Colère.” Journal of Haitian Studies 12.2 (Fall 2006): 4-21.

“Battles on Bodies: Staging Rape and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined.” Callaloo Conference, University of Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, July 2010.

“Beyala’s Le roman de Pauline, Sapphire’s Push: Black Girl Narratives of Dysfunction in the African Diaspora.” Invited Lecture. Walter Rodney African Studies Seminar Series, Boston University, April 2010.

“’We Have Stumbled, But We Have Not Fallen:’ Rebuilding Haiti in the Names of Myriam Lerlet, Anne-Marie Coriolan and Magali Marcelin.” 12th Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Women and Writers and Scholars Conferences, Baton Rouge, LA, April 2010.

“’Your House is Your Island’: Narratives of Home in Haitian Women’s Texts.” 12th Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Women and Writers and Scholars Conferences, Baton Rouge, LA, April 2010.

“Can the Subaltern Survivor Speak? Documentary Film and Black Rape Survivors.” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, March 2010.

“Contextualizing Crisis: Resilience, Recovery, and Rebuilding in the World’s First Black Republic.” Panel Series Moderator and Co-planner. Boston College, February 2010.

“Visionaries, Violence and Visual Images: Documentary Film and Sexual Violence.” Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Conference, Ghana West Africa, August 2009.

“Subverting the [Sub]text: Junot Diaz, Zadie Smith, and ‘The Poorest Country in the Western Hemisphere.’” American Literature Association, Boston MA, May 2009.

“Upsetting the Stigma: Contemporary Haitian Artists and the Portrayal of AIDS, The Spirit of Haiti and Le President a-t-il le SIDA?” Haitian Studies Association Conference, Montrouis Haiti, November 2008.

“Of Memories and Men: Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying and Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother.” 11th Annual Association of Annual Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Saint George, Grenada, May 2008.

“Jaspora ap Respekte: Reading Wyclef.” Rebuilding Haiti? Deconstructing Haiti’s Dominant Narratives (Panel chair and organizer). Caribbean Studies Association Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 2007.

“African Women’s Writing and the Rape Survivor Narrative: Calixthe Beyala and Yvonne Vera.” Africana Studies Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. February 2007.

“Poeming Home: Aimé Césaire’s Notebook of Return to the Nativeland.” MIT Department of English. Invited Lecture for Professor Alisa Braithwaite’s World Literatures Course. Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2006.

“A Haitian Woman of Letters: Naming, Claiming, and Framing Marie Vieux-Chauvet.” Haitian Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, October 2006.

“The Politics and Poetics of Haitian Women’s Writing.” (Panel chair and organizer). Imagining, Theorizing, and Creating in the Caribbean, 10th Annual Association of Annual Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Miami, Florida, May 2006.

“Genocide as Text: Challenging Rwanda’s Dominant Images.” Beyond the Printed Word: African Literature Association 31st Annual Conference, Boulder, Colorado, March 2005.

“De la violence, Duvalier: Representing Violence Under Duvalier.” “Liberatory Poetics in Caribbean Writing: Gender and Nation Re-configurations," 9th Annual Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, April 2004.

“Shaken Ground, Strong Foundations: The Legacy of Haitian Feminism,” Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010. Ed. Martin Munro. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. 79-86.

“Cracks of Gender Inequality: Haitian Women After the Earthquake.” Haiti: Then and Now, Social Science Research Council Online. February 2010.

“Shadows and Bodies: Edwidge Danticat and African American Women’s Literature.” Haiti's Chérie: A Readers' Guide to Edwidge Danticat. Ed. Martin Munro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 52-65.

“Terre et chair: Rape, Land, and the Body in Gisèle Pineau’s Macadam Dreams.” Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women's Literature in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Marie Drews and Verena Theile. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009. 29-50.

“Beneath the Layers of Violence: Images of Rape in the Rwandan Genocide.” Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations. Ed. Lisa Cuklanz. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 246-66.

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