Overview
Nasanin Rosado is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Romance Studies at Duke University, specializing in French and Francophone literature. Taking cue from Renée Larrier, who argues that “[francophone women writers] subvert silenced history... in fictional narratives,” her thesis proposes to read key texts of African diasporic literature in order to flesh out the subtleties and significances of the mother-made-murderer, and in doing so, argue that literature provides the code to “de-biologize the epistème” as per Sylvia Wynter. This thesis will argue that the refusal to maternity witnessed in the works of Marie-Célie Agnant, Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Évelyne Trouillot represents a material refusal that is a necropolitical act of resistance to antiblack weather in the wake of the Middle Passage.
Rosado graduated from New York University in 2019 with a M.A. in French Studies, awarded with distinction; in 2018 with a M.A. in Comparative Literature; and in 2017 with a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature, magna cum laude and with honors. In the pursuit of these degrees, she completed the following theses: “The Polemic of Frantz Fanon and the Problem of Universalism” (2019); “Poetics, Parole, and Performative: Language and Resistance in Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest” (2018); and “La Décolonisation par les mots: Négritude comme une appropriation poétique noire de la langue française,“ for which she was awarded the Prix Jindrich Zezula, presented for best honors thesis in French (2017).
Rosado graduated from New York University in 2019 with a M.A. in French Studies, awarded with distinction; in 2018 with a M.A. in Comparative Literature; and in 2017 with a B.A. in French and Comparative Literature, magna cum laude and with honors. In the pursuit of these degrees, she completed the following theses: “The Polemic of Frantz Fanon and the Problem of Universalism” (2019); “Poetics, Parole, and Performative: Language and Resistance in Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest” (2018); and “La Décolonisation par les mots: Négritude comme une appropriation poétique noire de la langue française,“ for which she was awarded the Prix Jindrich Zezula, presented for best honors thesis in French (2017).