The Department of African American Studies Caribbeanists at Yale presents Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, Director of Africana Studies, and professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University:
“Looking for the Other Worlds.”
Caribbeanists at Yale presents “Looking for the Other Worlds.” Professor Jean-Charles will be in conversation with Yale’s Kaiama L. Glover to discuss her recent monograph and its place within her broader research and activist work on Haiti and the Black francophone world.
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is the Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, Director of Africana Studies, and a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. A Black feminist literary scholar who works at the intersections of race, gender and justice from a global perspective, her scholarship and teaching include work on Black France, African diasporic literatures, Caribbean Studies, Haiti, and the Haitian diaspora. She has authored numerous publications that have appeared in books, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of three books – Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014); The Trumpet of Conscience Today (New York: Orbis Press, 2021); and Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2022). She is currently working on two book projects––an exploration of representations of Haitian girlhood and a co-authored interdisciplinary study of sexual violence titled The Rape Culture Syllabus.