Kristine Guillaume
20th and 21st century African American and Black diasporic literature, prison writing, Black political thought, life-writing
MSt in Intellectual History, University of Oxford (2022)
MSt in English and American Studies, University of Oxford (2021)
A.B in History and Literature and African American Studies, Harvard University (2020)
Kristine Guillaume is a PhD student in English and African American Studies and a Dean’s Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on 20th and 21st century African American prison writing. Prior to Yale, Kristine completed a master’s degrees in English and American Studies and in Intellectual History at the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She graduated with honors in History and Literature and African American Studies from Harvard in 2020. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Kristine wrote her senior thesis on the prison writings of Angela Davis and George Jackson.
Department:
Combined Ph.D. with English Language & Literature