Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is the Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, Director of Africana Studies, and a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. A Black feminist literary scholar who works at the intersections of race, gender and justice from a global perspective, her scholarship and teaching include work on Black France, African diasporic literatures, Caribbean Studies, Haiti, and the Haitian diaspora. She has authored numerous publications that have appeared in books, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals. She is the author of three books – Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2014); The Trumpet of Conscience Today (New York: Orbis Press, 2021); and Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2022). She is currently working on two book projects––an exploration of representations of Haitian girlhood and a co-authored interdisciplinary study of sexual violence titled The Rape Culture Syllabus.
Attendees are invited to access chapters from Looking for Other Worlds here. We look forward to seeing you!