Doris L. Garraway

Associate Professor of French, Ph.D. Duke University. Her research and teaching interests include French Caribbean and Haitian literature and historiography, the Haitian Revolution in literature, early modern French travel literature, and French and Francophone cultural theory. Her book, The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (Duke, 2005; reprint 2008), examines narratives, histories, legal texts, and fictions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French slave societies, with particular emphasis on the role of gender and sexuality in social relations of domination and constructions of race. She is the editor of Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (University of Virginia, 2008), which includes her recent work on universalism and nationalism in Haitian revolutionary discourse. She has published articles on colonial and postcolonial Caribbean literature and on French Enlightenment literature in The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Callalou, and in the edited volume The Postcolonial Enlightenment, edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford, 2009). Her forthcoming article on Aimé Césaire will appear in Research in African Literatures in winter 2010.  She is a past recipient of a fellowship from Northwestern's Kaplan Center for the Humanities, and was an affiliate at the Center in 2007-08.

Professor Garraway has delivered lectures at the University of Pensylvania, Duke University, the University of Iowa, the University of Michigan, Penn State University, and the University of Washington, and she regularly presents papers at conferences and colloquia nationally and internationally. In October 2004 she organized an international symposium at Northwestern entitled "The Haitian Revolution: History, Memory, Representation."

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