Presentations

1: Postcolonial Predicaments: Nineteenth-Century Haitian Historians and Their Craft

Erin Zavitz, independent scholar

2: Reading the Black Spartacus: Literature as Politics in the Haitian Revolution

Grégory Pierrot, U of Connecticut, Stamford

3: The Day Modernity Came to Europe, according to Haiti: Demesvar Delorme’s Francesca (1872) and the Games of Literary Fate

Michael Reyes, Queen’s U

4: Writing the Fin de Siècle Nation: Haitian National Identity in Fernand Hibbert’s Les Thazar and ‘Le mariage d’Otto’

Shanna Jean-Baptiste, Yale U

Presider

Paul B. Miller, Vanderbilt U

Respondent

Chelsea Stieber, Catholic U of America