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SUMMARY:Author talk: The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
DESCRIPTION: \n\nMarlene L. Daut is an author\, scholar\, editor\, and 
 professor. Her books include Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary 
 History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool UP\, 
 2015)\; Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism 
 (Palgrave\, 2017)\; Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the 
 Haitian Revolution (UNC Press\, 2023)\; and The First and Last King of 
 Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf\, 2025).\n\nHer 
 articles on Haitian history and culture have appeared in over a dozen 
 magazines\, newspapers\, and journals including\, The New Yorker 
 (“What’s the Path Forward for Haiti?”)\, The New York Times 
 (“Napoleon Isn’t a Hero to Celebrate”)\, Harper’s Bazaar 
 (“Resurecting a Lost Palace of Haiti”)\, Essence (“Haiti isn’t 
 Cursed. It is Exploited”)\, The Nation (“What the French Really Owe 
 Haiti”)\, and the LA Review of Books (“Why did Bridgerton Erase 
 Haiti?”). She has won several awards\, grants\, and fellowships for her 
 contributions to historical and cultural understandings of the Caribbean\, 
 notably from the Ford Foundation\, the American Council of Learned 
 Societies\, the Haitian Studies Association\, and the National Endowment 
 for the Humanities. Most recently\, she won a grant from the Robert Silvers 
 Foundation for The First and Last King of Haiti.\n\nShe graduated from 
 Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. in English and French in 2002 and 
 went on to teach in Rouen\, France as an Assistante d’Anglais before 
 enrolling at the University of Notre Dame\, where she earned a Ph.D. in 
 English in 2009. Since graduating\, she has taught Haitian and French 
 colonial history and culture at the University of Miami\, the Claremont 
 Graduate University\, and the University of Virginia\, where she also 
 became series editor of New World Studies at UVA Press. In July 2022\, she 
 was appointed as Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale 
 University. Marlene lives in the New Haven\, CT area with her spouse and 
 children.
LOCATION:Ives Community Program Room\, Ives Main Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Seth Godfrey":MAILTO:sgodfrey@nhfpl.org
CATEGORIES:Civic and Community Engagement, Education and Lifelong Learning, Literature, Arts and Culture
CONTACT;CN="Seth Godfrey":MAILTO:sgodfrey@nhfpl.org
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