Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of African American Studies with a secondary appointment in French at Yale University. She has written extensively about Caribbean literature in her monographs A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP), and in such peer-reviewed publications as The French Review, Research in African Literatures, The Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and The Journal of Haitian Studies, among others. She has co-edited several multi-author volumes, including New Narratives of Haiti for Transition magazine, Translating the Caribbean for Small Axe, and Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine for Yale French Studies, and she is currently at work on an intellectual biography titled “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life.” Glover is the prize-winning translator of several works of Haitian prose fiction and francophone non-fiction; she is the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis and the founding co-director of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. She is also a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and the co-host of the podcast WRITING HOME | American Voices from the Caribbean.