Maroon Cosmopoetics: Memory & Embodiment in The Works of Tessa Mars and Elizabeth Acevedo
Carine Schermann
Boston College / Florida State University
Monday, 10 November
2-3:15pm
LOCATION; Coburn 275
Carine Schermann is a PhD Candidate in Francophone & Caribbean Studies at Florida State University. Her current research focuses on Haitian and Dominican shared imaginaries of shapeshifting in the common folklore of the island, its literatures, visual arts, and its inspirations in contemporary activist and anti-racist movements. She received the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in 2023-24, and she is the African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College for 2025-26. She has published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites and the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies. Before starting her PhD, she lived seven years in Port-au-Prince, where she worked for FOKAL, a cultural and social organization; and co-created the multidisciplinary journal Trois/Cent/Soixante.
Presented by the Department of World Languages & Cultures
In English and open to all
For more information: kristen_stern@uml.edu