Selected Presentations & Appearances
Neuroscience and the Poetics of the Haitian Declaration of Independence
· December 9, 2013
Lecture
Harvard University, 18th Century Studies Group, Mahindra Humanities Center
Revolutionary Practices
· December 5, 2013
Lecture
Brandeis Sawyer Seminar on Rethinking the Age of Revolution
L'aire de Firmin
· November 11, 2013
Lecture
Journées d'ethnologie, Institut d'Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Adrian and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory
· October 23, 2013
Lecture
19th Century French Studies Colloquium
Les Cicatrices de Dessalines
· April 1, 2013
Lecture
Atelier Groupe Histoire de l'Atlantique Française, Montreal, CA
Plenary, "African Roots and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean"
· March 19, 2013
Lecture
World View's Annual Latin America and North Carolina Seminar
Flaubert and Epilepsy and "Haiti to New Orleans," Katherine P. Gore Chair Lectures
· March 1, 2013
Lecture
Tulane University
Les Cicatrices de Dessalines
· October 17, 2012
Lecture
Institute for African Studies and Research (l'IERAH), Université d'état d'Haïti
Flaubert's Brain: Neurohumanities (Plenary Lecture for the Society for French Studies)
· July 5, 2012
Lecture
University of Exeter
Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the African Character of the Haitian Revolution (Charles Bonnier Annual Lecture)
· May 6, 2012
Lecture
University of Liverpool
Neuroscience and the Humanities
· November 12, 2011
Lecture
NEH/Goethe Institute Satellite Panel for the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC
Digital Humanities and 19th Century French Studies: Mapping the History of Cholera
· October 27, 2011
Lecture
Nineteenth Century French Studies, Philadelphia, PA
Immigration to the Republic of Letters
· September 30, 2011
Lecture
Columbia University Seminar on Colonialism and Orientalism
The Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Lab Cholera Project
· April 1, 2011
Lecture
Duke University
Barbara Johnson’s Last Gift: Toward a New Engagement with Historical African Personhood
· January 9, 2011
Lecture
Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA
Feminine Literary Persons and Things
· January 8, 2011
Lecture
Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA
Haiti’s Independence Denied: The French in Santo Domingo, 1804
· November 13, 2010
Lecture
Haitian Studies Association, Brown University, Providence, RI
Toward a Theory of Fat: Balzac, Capitalism, and Body Consciousness
· October 1, 2010
Lecture
Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Courtesan Poetry, the Urban Libertine Milieu, and the Haitian Revolution
· September 1, 2010
Lecture
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Imitating Universality
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
Haiti and the Politics of the Universal,” Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Your Experience is in My Body: The Biological Precedence of Representation in the Mirror Neuron Paradigm
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
Institute of Advanced Study, University Symposium on Body and Knowing, University of Minnesota
The Writing of Disaster in Haiti
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
East Carolina University
Specialized Communities: Mirror Neurons and the Biosocial Politics of Resemblance
· May 1, 2010
Lecture
Keynote, University of Minnesota Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies, Minneapolis, MN
Francophone World Literature (littérature-monde) and Cosmopolitanism: Citizen of the World without the Citizen?
· November 1, 2009
Lecture
University of Chicago
Mirror Neurons and Mimesis
· October 1, 2009
Lecture
Humanities/Science Symposium on “What Is Human?” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Second Nature: The Biosocial Construction of Likeness
· September 1, 2009
Lecture
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Mirror Neurons and Mimesis Symposium
Le Monde Mandé et un Postcolonialisme cosmopolite et de longue durée
· June 1, 2009
Lecture
Bamako, Mali
Haitian Romanticism and Romantic Modernity
· May 1, 2009
Lecture
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Under the Jurisdiction of La Sirène: Anba dlò in Turner, Dessalines, and Haitian Painting
· April 1, 2009
Lecture
American Reactions to the Haitian Independence in the Era of Slavery
· February 1, 2009
Lecture
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for the Humanities, "Coping with the Past" Symposium
A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text
· December 1, 2008
Lecture
Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA
A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text
· November 1, 2008
Lecture
Haitian Studies Association Conference, Montrouis
Napoleonic Kidnappings, from Toussaint Louverture to the Son of Henry Christophe
· October 1, 2008
Lecture
Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Nashville, Tennessee
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Team Leader - Integration of Technology and Storytelling to Create a Visual Art Exhibit on Women's Health
· 2019
- 2020
Projects & Field Work
North Carolina
Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Trauma and Timing
· August 2013
- May 2014
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Director : 3rd Annual Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference
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March 2013
Event/Organization Administration
Duke University
Selection Committee, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference
·
December 17, 2012
Event/Organization Administration
Orgaanizer : 'Old' Worlds, 'New' Worlds, Future Worlds Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference
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March 2012
Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer : Haiti Lab Workshop, "Unveiling the Colonial System": The Baron de Vastey and the Henry Christophe Regime
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December 2011
Event/Organization Administration
PFIRST Workshop, "Discourses of Trauma in Haiti" (Co-Organizer)
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November 2011
Event/Organization Administration
Selection Committee, NIneteenth-Century French Studies Conference
·
2011
Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer (with Michaeline Crichlow (Duke, Sociology and AAAS, Patricia Northover (UWI, SALISES), Matthew Smith (UWI, History, Faculty of the Human : States of Freedom, Freedom of States
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June 1, 2010
Event/Organization Administration
University of West Indies-Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
Editorial Consultant Team, Norton Anthology of World Literature
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December 17, 2009
Editorial Activities