Kaiama Glover - Department of Black Studies, Yale University

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Kaiama L. Glover, a professor at Yale University, discussing her work and contributions to Black Studies and francophone literature.

This is Ashley Newby and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods. Today's conversation is with Kaiama L. Glover, professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon , as well as of numerous essays, articles, and chapters concerning race, gender, and representation in the francophone world. She is currently at work on a biography titled “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life" (forthcoming with Liveright/Norton) and a series of essays, “‘Blackness’ in French.” Professor Glover is the prize-winning translator of several works of Haitian prose fiction and francophone non-fiction. She is also the founding…

People in this episode

Hosts: Ashley Newby, John E. Drabinski

Guest: Kaiama L. Glover

Topics covered

• Black Studies
• Caribbean literature
• race and gender
• francophone studies
• digital humanities
• cultural representation

Keywords

• Black Studies
• Yale University
• Caribbean Womanhood
• francophone literature
• digital humanities
• race
• gender
• representation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale University, archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography, New York Times Book Review

Books & works: A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life, 'Blackness' in French

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