In her new book, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press), Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and of African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, focuses on the work of Haitian scholars and historians who have been silenced for centuries.

Across the African diaspora, Black women must live up to political and social obligations and gendered expectations. But while concepts like “Black Girl Magic” and Black excellence provide empowering narratives, can they also become a source of social pressure? This is the kind of question that Kaiama L. Glover investigates through her scholarship on African diasporic literature.

Jarvis is Assistant Professor in the Department of French in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Her book, “Decolonizing Memory,” has won several awards including the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize from the FAS.

Brancher, a specialist in the French Renaissance, joined the Yale faculty in the fall of 2023.

In an interview with Yale News, Kaiama L. Glover discusses her scholarship at the nexus of French, francophone, Caribbean, and literary studies.