Doris L. Garraway

Associate Professor of French, Ph.D. Duke University. Her research and teaching interests include Francophone Caribbean literature and historiography, the Haitian Revolution, early modern French literature, gender and slavery, performance, and postcolonial studies. She is the author of The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (Duke UP, 2005; reprint 2008), and editor of Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (University of Virginia Press, 2008). She has published articles on various authors and periods of French and Francophone literature in Research in African Literatures, The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Callalou, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, and in the edited volume The Postcolonial Enlightenment (Oxford UP, 2009). Her two most recent articles—“Empire of Liberty, Kingdom of Civilization: Henry Christophe, Baron de Vastey, and the Paradoxes of Universalism in Postrevolutionary Haiti” and “Towards a Literary Psychoanalysis of Postcolonial Haiti: Desire, Violence, and the Mimetic Crisis in Marie Chauvet’s Amour”— are forthcoming in Small Axe and Romanic Review, respectively. In support of her current research, Garraway has been awarded fellowships from Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies, the National Humanities Center, the John Carter Brown Library, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and she was named the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor at Northwestern for 2011 to 2014. She is a past recipient of a fellowship from Northwestern's Kaplan Center for the Humanities.

In May 2010 Professor Garraway co-organized the film series “Haiti on Screen” in honor of the victims of the earthquake of January 2010. In 2004 she organized an international symposium entitled "The Haitian Revolution: History, Memory, Representation" to commemorate the bicentennial of Haitian independence. Professor Garraway has delivered lectures at universities throughout the U.S. including the University of Pensylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, the University of Iowa, Penn State University, Indiana University, and the University of Missouri. In April 2010 she gave a plenary address at the conference “Caribbean Enlightenment” at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Professor Garraway has directed dissertations on various subjects including memory in north African literature, education in Francophone African and Caribbean literature, and migration in Francophone Caribbean literature and film.

Professor Garraway served as Director of Graduate Studies in French from 2005 to 2008 and 2009 to 2011.

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