Marlene L. Daut

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Professor of French and African American Studies
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Marlene L. Daut

Professor of French and African American Studies

Professor Daut teaches courses in anglophone and francophone Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Primarily a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, she writes about the history of the Haitian Revolution, literary cultures of the greater Caribbean, and racial politics in global media, especially as appears in film, television, and art.

Her books include:

She is co-editor of the following volumes:

Professor Daut’s public-facing articles have appeared in The New Yorker; The New York TimesThe NationEssence MagazineHarper’s BazaarAvidly: A Channel of the LA Review of Books; The Conversation; and Public Books, among others. Her peer-reviewed articles can be found in journals such as, New Literary HistoryarchipelagosSmall AxeNineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, Studies in Romanticism, and more.

Daut is also the co-creator and co-editor of H-Net Commons’ digital platform, H-Haiti  and curates a website on early Haitian print culture at http://lagazetteroyale.com. She has also developed an online bibliography of fictions of the Haitian Revolution from 1787 to 1900 at the website http://haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com and co-edits the Global Black History and Theory section at Public Books. She is series editor of New World Studies at UVA Press.