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Michael Reyes
Associate Professor | Department Head
French Studies
Arts & Science
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I study Haitian efforts to imagine solidarity and community with the indigenous inhabitants of Hispaniola, the Ta铆no. Although few Ta铆no survived the Spanish invasion of Hispaniola that began in 1492, memory of the Ta铆no persisted in independent Haiti (1804), nourishing constitutional revisions, the nation鈥檚 early periodicals, the country鈥檚 first serious histories, collections of poetry, stories, countless plays, and even botanical texts. My research provides an account of how and why Haitians have made claim to the Ta铆no at particular moments of history, and what these claims mean for a predominantly Black diasporic people.
I also research the most effective ways to correct the written and spoken errors of students learning a second language.
I teach courses on the French language, French Caribbean literature, Black anticolonialism, translation, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
I am also affiliated with the Cultural Studies program.
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Courses
- FREN 150 - Fran莽ais interm茅diaire
- FREN 343* - L鈥檋istoire litt茅raire et culturelle de la Francophonie et du Qu茅bec
- FREN 351* - 脡crits des mondes francophones
- FREN 352* - Vers de nouveaux r茅cits pour Ha茂ti - Une introduction aux 茅tudes ha茂tiennes
- FREN 450 - Travaux pratiques : Stylistique et traduction
- FREN 499 - Apprentissage et enseignement du fran莽ais langue seconde
*Approved Option Courses in the Black Studies Minor
Publications
Book Chapters
- . 鈥溾榃hat Will I Be Called in the Future?鈥 Subverting Expectations of Ta铆no Tragedy in Edwidge Danticat鈥檚 Anacaona: Golden Flower.鈥 In Caribbean Children鈥檚 Literature: Critical Approaches, Volume 2, edited by Betsy Nies and Melissa Garc铆a Vega, University of Mississippi Press, 2023, 81-101.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 鈥淲hat did Christopher Columbus once mean to Haiti? 脡mile Nau鈥檚 Histoire des Caciques d鈥橦a茂ti and Irving鈥檚 Columbus in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World.鈥 Atlantic Studies, 2023,
- 鈥淗aitian Indigeneity Before Africa: Commemorating Columbus and Dessalines in Henri Chauvet鈥檚 La fille du Kacik (1894).鈥&苍产蝉辫;Research in African Literatures, 50.4 (2020): 165-181,
- 鈥淐aribbean Ethnobotany Before Roumain: Eug猫ne Nau鈥檚 Nineteenth-Century Contribution to an Understanding of the 鈥業ndian Flora of Haiti.鈥欌 Caribbean Quarterly, 63.4 (2017): 467-483,
- 鈥淣ous l鈥檃vons gard茅e en nous, la tranche blanche: Rethinking the Time of the Haitian Flag in J. F. Brierre鈥檚 Le drapeau de demain&苍产蝉辫;(1931)鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Haitian Studies, 23.1 (2017): 35-58,
Publications Related to Teaching
- Cracking the Correction Code : Improving Student Writing in the Second Language Classroom and Beyond, Michael Reyes and Francesca Fiore, 2020. Self-Published Training Guide, open access digital version in QSpace (ISBN: 978-1-55339-626-0).
- Cracking the Correction Code : A Workbook for Improving Student Writing in the Second Language Classroom and Beyond, Michael Reyes and Francesca Fiore, 2020. Self-Published Workbook, open access digital version in QSpace (ISBN: 978-1-55339-6277).
- Pourrais-tu r茅p茅ter ? Guide sur la r茅troaction corrective 脿 l鈥檕ral dans les cours de langue et ailleurs, Michael Reyes, 2019. Self-Published Training Guide, open access digital version in QSpace. (ISBN: 978-1-55339-623-9)
- Could You Repeat that? A Brief Guide to Oral Corrective Feedback in the Language Learning Classroom and Beyond, Michael Reyes, 2019. Self-Published Training Guide, open access digital version in QSpace. (ISBN: 978-1-55339-6215).
Grants
- 2020 鈥淣ew Narratives for Haiti and Haitians in Chile,鈥 ELAP Faculty Mobility Grant, Global Affairs Canada, ($5,600)
- 2019 鈥淐racking the Correction Code: How Should We Correct Mistakes in the Written Work of Foreign Language Learners?鈥 Educational Research Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Queen鈥檚 University ($4,500).
- 2018 鈥淭he Fruits of Colonial Botany: How Haitians used Plants to Create an 鈥業ndigenous鈥 Identity,鈥 SSHRC Institutional Grant, Queen鈥檚 University ($5,000).
- 2018 鈥淗ow should we correct mistakes in the speech of foreign language learners? Assessing the training of Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in effective feedback strategies,鈥 Educational Research Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Queen鈥檚 University ($3,000)