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Although I started off as a specialist in Comparative Literature, with a focus on late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century British, French, and Italian literature, my research for the past several decades has been largely devoted to post/colonial writing, with a particular focus on Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature and theory (see below for an annotated list of my book publications). I am currently working on a SSHRC-funded project entitled Phoenix Rising: Race, Literacy, and the Emergence of Early Haitian Literature. Recent articles that may eventually find their way into the planned monograph include “” (MLN 130.4, 2015) and “” (Atlantic Studies 15.4, 2018), as well as a chapter in the edited collection Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2022) entitled “The Shadow of Voltaire: Early Haitian Literature and the Claims of Intertextuality.”

Whereas my research has, for quite some time now, been very precisely focused on the Haitian Revolution and its immediate aftermath (1791-1825), and fits within specific interdisciplinary rubrics such as Transatlantic Romanticism and Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, my teaching and supervision interests cover a wide array of topics and time periods. Recent undergraduate courses I have taught include “Introductory Approaches to Cultural Studies” (ENGL 292), “Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature” (ENGL 349), and fourth-year seminars on popular culture (“Late Victorian Popular Fiction,” “Zombies: A Post/Colonial History”). I have taught a range of graduate courses in Romantic, Victorian, Modernist, and Postcolonial Literatures, including, most recently, a seminar on “Caribbean Modernisms.”