Biography
After my undergraduate studies in Amherst and ENS Paris, I joined the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University in 2019. Broadly speaking, I work on 20th-century Caribbean literature in English, Dutch, French, and Spanish. My dissertation is a cultural-literary history of the Caribbean 1970s, centered around performance practices and events such as Carifesta. In all my writing, I attempt to maintain a Pan-Caribbean, regionalist perspective. My article on Carifesta in relation to the life and work of Edward Kamau Brathwaite appeared in archipelagos in 2022. In recent years, I have shared my work in progress with audiences at the West Indian Literature Conference and the American Comparative Literature Association.
I maintain an interest in public criticism and reviewing. Writing in Dutch, I have published in De Fusie and the Dutch Review of Books. My commitment to translation also stems from my undergraduate years at Amherst, where I worked with Professor Laure Katsaros to translate a book-length essay from French for the Massachusetts Review. In 2020 and 2021, I convened the Caribbean Studies Working Group here at Yale. Throughout my time in college, as well as at Yale, I have tutored students in Dutch at various levels (from basic conversation to advanced reading skills).
Research Interests
20th Century Caribbean literatures, Postcolonialism, Translation, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, global African Diaspora