At a glance...

Assistant Professor of French
Romance Languages & Literatures Dept.

regine.jc@bc.edu

Lyons Hall 304
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

617.552.1447

Education and Academic Degrees
B.A. University of Pennsylvania
A.M, Ph.D.  Harvard University
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Virginia

Professor Jean-Charles specializes in francophone Caribbean and African literature as well as gender studies in Africa and the diaspora.  Her current manuscript is on the role and the representation of gender violence in francophone literature.  During the 2008-2009 academic year Prof. Jean-Charles is offering a course that explores multiple genres, regions, and themes of Francophone Caribbean and African Literature as well as a course on Francophone Women Writers in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.  She has a joint appointment with African and African Diaspora Studies for which she is teaching “Narratives of Violence in Africa and the Diaspora” and “Beyond Barack and Hillary:  Black Feminism in Politics, Theory and Literature.” 

Research Interests:
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 Publications:
“Shadows and Bodies: Edwidge Danticat and African American Women’s Literature.” Haiti's Chérie: A Readers' Guide to Edwidge Danticat.  Ed.  Martin Munroe (forthcoming).

"'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 Scholars Press, forthcoming).

“Wading through the Black Atlantic: Water Imagery in Texts by Haitian Women Writers.” Ecrire Haiti aujourd’hui/ Writing Haiti Today.  Ed. Nadève Ménard (Paris: Karthala, forthcoming).

“Beneath Layers of Violence: Images of Rape in the Rwandan Genocide.”  Gendered Violence and the Media.  Editor: Lisa Cuklanz and Sujata Moorti (New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming).