Scholarly Articles

JOURNAL ARTICLES


“Le Royaume d’anti-esclavagisme.” Revue d’histoire haïtienne/Haitian History Journal. 3 (2022): 107-122.

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“Beyond Trouillot: Unsettling Genealogies of Historical Thought.” Small Axe (March 2021): 132-54.

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“Haiti @ the Digital Crossroads: Archiving Black Sovereignty.” Sx/archipelagos (July 2019): https://archipelagosjournal.org/issue03/daut.html


“‘Nothing in Nature is Mute’: Reading Revolutionary Romanticism in L’Haïtiade and Hérard Dumesle’s Voyage dans le nord d’Hayti (1824).”  New Literary History 49.4 (2018): 493-520. 

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“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.

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

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

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

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“‘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. 

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“‘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.

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“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.

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

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BOOK CHAPTERS


“Kingdom of the Next World: The Suicide of Henry Christophe.” The Kingdom of this World,  Reimagined. Ed. Lesley A. Wolff (Carlow University Press, April 2026): 33-41.

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“Arturo Schomburg Digs up the Kingdom of Haiti’s Past.” Black Studies on 135th Street: The Founding and Future of the Schomburg Collection, Eds. Barrye Brown, Laura E. Helton, and Vanessa K. Valdés (forthcoming April 2026, Yale University Press): 

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“What is the American Declaration of Independence at 250 to me?” The American Revolution at 250: Twenty-Four Historians Reflect on the Founding. Ed. Frank Cogliano (forthcoming April 2026, University of Virginia Press) : 72-84.

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“How the Haitian Revolutionaries Led the World from Slavery to Freedom,” The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Global South. Eds. Anne Garland Mahler and Christopher Lee (May 2025, Oxford University Press)

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Introduction. A History of Haitian Literature. Ed. Marlene L. Daut and Kaiama L. Glover. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). 1-30.

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“Maryan’s Napoléon: An Anti-Colonial Perspective.” My Name is Maryan. Ed. Alison M. Gingeras. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami/Koenig Books. (October 2023).  156-57. 

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“L’Héritage controversé de Napoléon.” Colonisations: Notre histoire. Eds. Pierre Singaravélou, Arthur Asseraf, Guillaume Blanc, Yala Kisukidi, Mélanie Lamotte. (Paris: Éditions du Seuil (September 2023). 748-49.


“Anti-Conquest and the Development of Anticolonialism after the Haitian Constitution of 1805.” Ideas in Unexpected Places Reimagining Black Intellectual History. Eds. Brandon Byrd, Leslie Alexander, and Russell Rickford. Chicago: Northwestern UP (April 2022). 75-88.

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“Haiti as Diasporic Crossroads in Transnational African American Writing.” Cambridge Series in African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865. Volume editor, Teresa Zackodnik. Series editor, Joycelin Moody. Cambridge UP (April 2021). 331-51. 

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“Antillean Sovereignty in Pan‐Caribbean Writing.” Caribbean Literature in Transition. Vol. 1. Eds. Timothy Watson and Evelyn O’Callaghan. Cambridge UP, 2021. 215-30.

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“Creole.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York University Press, 2020. 73-77. 

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“Teaching Perspective: The Relation between the Haitian and French Revolutions,” Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. eds. Julia V. Douthwaite, Catriona Seth and Antoinette Sol. New York: MLA Option for Teaching Series, 2019. 264-274.

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“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, 2017. 287-313.

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“Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory,” The Colonial System Unveiled. tr. and ed. by Chris Bongie. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2014. 173-210.

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