Fields of Research:

African and Caribbean Literatures, Literature by Women

Selected Publications:

Books:
Autofiction and Advocacy in the Francophone Caribbean ( 2006). [http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=LARRIS07]
Francophone Women Writers of Africa and the Caribbean (2000). [Focus] 
Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated. Co-edited with E. Anthony Hurley and Joseph McLaren (1999).

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
“’Sont-ils encore gens de Guadeloupe?’ Departmentalization, Migration, and Family Dynamics.” International Journal of Francophone Studies 11.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2008).
“’Quand la lecture devient passion:’ Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan.” African Literatures at the Millenium (2007) pp. 315-324.
"Migrant ImagiNations: Can[n]ons, Creole[s], and Patrick Chamoiseau's Chemin-d'école." Journal of Caribbean Literatures (2006).
"DuSable, Douglass, and Dessalines: The Haitian Pavilion and the Narrative of History." Ecrire en pays assiégé: Haiti Writing Under Siege/. Ed. Marie-Agnès Sourieau and Kathleen Balutansky (2005). 39-59.
 "Borders, Books, and Points de repère." Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies. Ed. H. Adlai Murdoch and Anne Donaday. (2005). 211-223.
“Hommage, image, imaginaire: Constructions of Haiti by Nineteenth Century African Americans.” Présence Africaine (2004): 211-220.
 "Empire's Intimacies: 'Le Quotidien" in (Post)Colonial Fiction and Film." L'Esprit créateur 44.1 (Spring 2004): 96-107.
 "Bibliography of and on Mariama Bâ." Emerging Perspectives on Mariama Bâ: Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Postmodernism. Ed. Ada Azodo. (2003). 441-467.
"'Girl By the Shore:' Gender and Testimony in Edwidge Danticat's the farming of bones. Journal of Haitian Studies (Fall 2001): 50-60.

Graduate Courses:

• Diasporas and Migrations
• The Caribbean Novel: Poetics of [Post]national Identity
• Visions of Empire
• "Témoignage" and Caribbean Women Writers
• Gender and Genre in Caribbean Literature
• Nation and Narration
• "Femme noire . . . "
• African Narrative
• African and Caribbean Women Writers

Undergraduate Courses:

• Urban Africa
• Writing Diaspora, Writing Home
•  "The African Child:" Literary Representations, Creative Expressions
• Creole[s] in the Caribbean
• Africultures
• Ousmane Sembene: écrivain et cinéaste
• ARTchipel: de la culture caribéenne
• African Literature, Culture, and Society
• French Women Writers
• French Novel

Program Connections:

Center for African Studies
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies