Professor of French and African American Studies. I am the author of Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool UP, 2015); Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (Palgrave, 2017); and co-editor and co-translator of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (U. of Virginia Press, 2022).