Marlene Daut

Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Studies

Affiliate, Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies, The Claremont Colleges

Contact Information

Humanities Faculty House, #3
135 East 12th Street
(909) 607-7439
Marlene.Daut@cgu.edu

Spring 2013 Office Hours

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Education

Ph.D., English, University of Notre Dame
M.A., English, University of Notre Dame
B.A., English, Loyola Marymount University
B.A., French, Loyola Marymount University

Research Interests

Marlene L. Daut specializes in early and nineteenth-century American and Caribbean literary and cultural studies. Her forthcoming book, Science of Desire: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, examines the connection between 18th- and 19th-century scientific debates about race and the Haitian Revolution in U.S. American, Haitian, and European colonial literatures.

Teaching Fields

U.S. American literature to 1930
Transatlantic studies
Literature of the African Diaspora
Postcolonial studies
Literature of the Americas
Critical race theory
French cultural studies

Current Project(s)

Science of Desire: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (forthcoming)

Haiti and the Black Atlantic: An Intellectual History, 1804-1934 (monograph in progress)

Selected Publications

“Monstrous Testimony: Baron de Vastey and the Politics of Black Memory,” The Colonial System Unveiled. tr. and ed. by Chris Bongie. (forthcoming fall 2013, Liverpool University Press).

“‘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.

“From Classical French Poet to Militant Haitian Statesman: The Early Years and Poetry of the Baron de Vastey.” Research in African Literatures. 43.1 (Spring 2012): 35-57.

“Daring to be Free/Dying to be Free: Toward a Dialogic Haitian-U.S. Studies.” American Quarterly. 63.2 (June 2011): 375-89.

“‘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.

“Un-Silencing the Past: Boisrond-Tonnerre, Vastey, and the Re-Writing of the Haitian Revolution, 1805-1817,”South Atlantic Review. 74.1 (Winter 2009): 35-64.

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

Additional Information

Awards and Accomplishments

Recipient of a 2012-2013 Ford Post Doctoral Fellowship

Recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend.

Recipient of a 2008 Ford Dissertation Fellowship.

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