Participant Info

First Name
Marlene
Last Name
Daut
Affiliation
University of Virginia
Website URL
haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com
Keywords
Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Haitian independence, nineteenth-century Haitian history, intellectual history, literary history, Caribbean history, early Caribbean studies, black sovereignty, postcolonialism, French colonialism, French Caribbean history, slavery, emancipation, slave narratives, black philosophy, digital humanities, print culture, newspaper studies, archival studies, digital archives, history of race and racism, abolitionist thought
Additional Contact Information
http://lagazetteroyale.com

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About Me

Marlene L. Daut has a B.A. in English and French from Loyola Marymount University, and she earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. She is currently Associate professor of African Diaspora Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute and the Program in American Studies at the University of Virginia. Before joining the faculty of UVA, Daut was Associate professor of English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. She has also been the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She is the author of two books: Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017) and Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool, 2015); and the forthcoming edited collection, An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions. Her articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals such as, Studies in Romanticism, L’esprit creatur, Small Axe, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, South Atlantic Review, Research in African Literatures, and J19. She is also co-editor and co-creator of H-Net’s scholarly network, H-Haiti and curates the websites, http://haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com and http://lagazetteroyale.com.

Recent Publications

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Haiti
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Atlantic, Caribbean, France, Latin America, North America, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern
Expertise by Topic
American Civil War, American Revolution, American Founding Era, Book History, Capitalism, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Emancipation, Genocide, Human Rights, Libraries & Archives, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexual Violence, Slavery