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Books

Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865

Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism
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Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865
Articles 

“Sovereignty in a Pan‐Caribbean Frame.” Caribbean Literature in Transition. Vol. 1. Eds. Timothy Watson and Evelyn              O’Callaghan. Cambridge UP (forthcoming)
 
“Anti-Conquest and the Development of Postcolonial Inquiry in the Haitian Constitution of 1805.” Expanding the     
          Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
. Eds. Brandon Byrd and Leslie Alexander. Chicago: Northwestern UP                  (forthcoming)

“Haiti @ the Digital Crossroads: Archiving Black Sovereignty Together in Life and Death.” Sx/archipelagos (forthcoming)
 
“‘Nothing in Nature is Mute’: Romanticism, Historiography, and the Politics of Form in L’Haïtiade  (ca. 1825-1828) and
            Hérard Dumesle’s Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824)”  New Literary History (forthcoming)
 
“A Literary Geography of Haiti in African America, 1850-1865.” Cambridge Series in African American Literature in
            Transition, 1850-1865
. Volume editor, Theresa Zackodnik. Series editor, Joycelin Moody. Cambridge UP
             (forthcoming)

"Teaching Perspective: The Relationship between the Haitian and French Revolutions,"
          Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. eds. Julia V. Douthwaite, Catriona Seth and Antoinette Sol.              MLA Option for Teaching Series. (forthcoming)

“Beyond ‘America for the Americans’: Race and Empire in the Work of Demesvar Delorme.” J19: The Journal of                           Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 6.1 (Spring 2018): 189-97.

“Translation for the Purposes of Indictment: Baron de Vastey in Colonial Jamaica.” Black Perspectives. 18 May 2017.
              http://www.aaihs.org/translation-for-the-purposes-of-indictment-baron-de-vastey-in-colonial-jamaica/

"Haiti, Definitely Not Canada’s Negro.” Woy Magazine. 9 May 2017. 
              http://woymagazine.com/2017/05/09/haiti-definitely-not-canadas-negro/

“Haiti and the (Black) Romantics: Enlightenment and Color Prejudice in Alexandre Dumas’s Georges (1843).” Studies
             in Romanticism
. Special Issue in Black Romanticism. ed. Paul Youngquist. 56.1 (Spring 2017): 73-91.

Introduction. A Colony in Crisis. 3.0
            https://colonyincrisis.lib.umd.edu/2016/10/31/issue-3-0-introduction/

“Genocidal Imaginings in the Era of the Haitian Revolution.” Age of Revolutions Blog
            http://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/01/25/genocidal-imaginings-in-the-era-of-the-haitian-revolution/

“Caribbean ‘Race Men’: Louis Joseph Janvier, Demesvar Delorme, and the Haitian Atlantic.” L’Esprit Créateur
          56. 1 (Spring 2016): 9-23.


“The ‘Alpha and Omega’ of Haitian Literature: Baron de Vastey and the U.S. Press,” The 
          Haitian Revolution and the Early U.S.: Histories, Textualities, Geographies. eds. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon and              Michael Drexler. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 288-317.


“Before Harlem: The Franco-Haitian Grammar of Transnational African American Writing.”
            J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. 3.2 (Fall 2015): 385-92.


“Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory,” The Colonial 
        System Unveiled. tr. and ed. by Chris Bongie. (Liverpool University Press, 2014).


“From Classical French Poet to Militant Haitian Statesman: The Early Years and Poetry of
         Baron de Vastey.” Research in African Literatures.  43.1 (Spring 2012): 35-57.


“ ‘The Alpha and Omega of Haitian Literature’: Baron de Vastey and the U.S. Audience
          of Haitian Political Writing.” Comparative Literature. 64.1 (Winter 2012): 49-72.  


“Daring to be Free/Dying to be Free: Toward a Dialogic Haitian-U.S. Studies.”  American Quarterly. 63.2 (June 2011):                375-89.

“ ‘Sons of White Fathers’: Mulatto Vengeance and the Haitian Revolution in Victor Séjour’s
           ‘The Mulatto’.” Nineteenth-Century Literature. 65.1 (June 2010): 1-37.


“Un-Silencing the Past: Boisrond-Tonnerre, Vastey, and the Re-Writing of the Haitian 
            Revolution, 1804-1817.” South Atlantic Review. 74.1 (Winter 2009): 35-64.


“Are they Mad? Nation and Narration in Tous les hommes sont fous,” with Karen E.
              Richman, Small Axe. 12.2 (June 2008): 133-48.