Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP), and is completing a biography, “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life” (Liveright/Norton) and an essay collection, “‘Blackness’ in French.” She is an award-winning translator of francophone literature, the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and the founding co-director of In the Same Boats, an Afro-Atlantic digital cartography. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and the NYPL Cullman Center.