Research

Selected Publications

“Kreyòl in Cuba: Writing Resistance, Affirming Haitian Heritage.” Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Reader, edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer R. Guzmán, University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 200-212. 

Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, scholarly translation (with Benjamin Hebblethwaite, UFL) of Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti by Michel-Rolph Trouillot (Haitian Kreyòl to English). Liverpool UP, March 2021.  

Toussaint Louverture: Repensar un icono. Co-edited essay collection (with Natalie Léger, Temple University). Santiago de Cuba: Editorial del Caribe, 2015. 

“Twin Pillars of Resistance: Vodou and Haitian Kreyòl in Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Ti difé boulé sou istoua Ayiti [Stirring the Pot of Haitian History].” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 48, no. 97, 2021,  39-49.

“Trans-Atlantic Interrogation: Fabienne Pasquet’s La deuxième mort de Toussaint Louverture.Comparative Literature & Culture (CLC Web), vol. 22, no. 4, 2020.

“Haiti, Principle of Hope: Parallels and Connections in the works of C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant.” Co-written essay (with Philip Kaisary of Carleton University, Ottawa). Atlantic Studies, vol. 16, no. 4, 2019, pp. 260-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2019.1666633 

“But the Captain is Haitian: Issues of Recognition within Ana Lydia Vega’s ‘Encancaranublado.’” Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Vanessa K. Valdés, SUNY UP, 2020, pp. 159-176.   

“Unification through zombification? Re-imagining Hispaniola’s history from the ‘periphery of the Margins.'” PALARA (Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association), vol. 16, 2012, pp. 49-63. 

“Problematic Cartographies: Hispaniola as Truncated Island in Aída Cartagena Portalatín’s Yania Tierra.Afro-Hispanic Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2011, pp. 91-106.  

“Articulating Haitian Conflicts in a New York City Basement: the Global Stakes of Frankétienne’s Pèlin-tèt.The Global South, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010, pp. 76-98. 

“La Revolución Haitiana y El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier: repensando lo impensable.” Revista de la Casa de las Américas, vol. 234, 2004, pp. 85-92.