Kaiama L. Glover
Professor of French, Barnard College

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Kaiama L. Glover

Research Interests
Francophone literature and post-colonial studies
Kaiama L. Glover?is Professor of French and Africana Studies. She is author of?Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon?(Liverpool, 2010); co-editor of?Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine?(Yale French Studies,?2016); and translator of Frankétienne’s?Ready to Burst?(Archipelago Books, 2014), Marie Chauvet’s?Dance on the Volcano?(Archipelago, 2016), and René Depestre’s?Hadriana in All My?(Akashic Books, 2017). She has won awards from the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is founding co-editor of peer-reviewed journal?sx archipelagos: a small axe platform for digital practice?and Director of the forthcoming digital humanities project?In the Same Boats: Toward an Intellectual Cartography of the Afro-Atlantic. Disorderly Women: On Caribbean Community and the Ethics of Self-Regard, her monograph concerning individualism and representations of womanhood in Caribbean prose fiction, is forthcoming with Duke University Press.

Selected publications