Associate Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., 1995 Columbia University (Comparative Literature/Spanish and Portuguese) M.A., 1987 Freie Universität Berlin (Latin American Studies, Philosophy, German Literature)

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Research Interests:

Caribbean and Latin American literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French); culture and politics in the nineteenth century; literature and dictatorship; literature and philosophy; cultural, aesthetic, and political theory; the Black Atlantic; the Haitian Revolution.

Affiliations:

Modern Language Association, Latin American Studies Association, Caribbean Philosophical Association

Fellowships/Honors:

2006 Bryce Wood Award of the Latin American Studies Association for Outstanding book on Latin America in the Humanities and Social Sciences for Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution; 2006 Katherine Singer Kovacs Award from the Modern Language Association for Outstanding book on Iberian and Latin American literatures and cultures for Modernity Disavowed; 2005 Frantz Fanon Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association for Modernity Disavowed

Selected Works:

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Forthcoming Duke University Press 2004)
Cirilo Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill. Trans. Helen Lane. Introduction and notes. Oxford University Press (forthcoming Oxford UP).

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