Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture: One Love (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527505513)

Irline François, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Goucher College, Maryland, USA, where she teaches courses on Transnational Feminist Theory, Latin American Women's Social Movements, Haitian History/Culture of Resistance as Expressed in the Arts, Caribbean Women's Writings, and Gender and Migration. She was a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award Recipient to Brazil 2010-2011, at the Núcleo de Estudos das Performances Afro-Ameríndias (NEPAA) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Research Fellow at the Women's Center (Archivio delle Donne) at the University of Naples, Italy (2007). She was also a FMS Mellon Fellow at Cornell University's Summer Institute, "Feminist Identities/Global Struggles" (2005). Her areas of expertise include pan-Caribbean women's writing, Haitian and Brazilian cultural studies, and transnational feminist theory. She has translated Mémoire d'une Amnésique [Memoir of an Amnesiac] by Jan Dominique from French into English (2008), and has also published several articles in Anglistica, Ma Comère: the Journal of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars and Transatlantiques: Atlantic Cross-Currents and Les Editions Rodopi, among others. She is currently completing the writing of a book entitled, Longings, Belongings and Un-belongings: Haunting Narratologies in Haiti and the Americas. It examines how historical haunting has impacted the Afro-gendered subject in the Americas.