Kaiama L. Glover

Assistant Professor

Biography:
Kaiama L. Glover is an Assistant Professor in the French Department and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. Since receiving her doctorate from Columbia in 2002, she has been lecturing and publishing in the fields of postcolonial studies in general and Francophone literature in particular. Her classes focus on the literature and culture of the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa, but her primary research interest and passion of late has been Haiti. Her essay on the novels of the Haitian Spiralist authors appeared in the fall of 2005 in a volume of collected essays titled /Haiti: Writing under Siege/, and her article on the usefulness of the Haitian zombie as literary metaphor was published recently in /The Journal of Haitian Studies/. Since receiving a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year, she has been focused on the completion of a full-length study of the issue of canon formation in the postcolonial Caribbean. Most recently, she has begun researching the representation of "unhomely" women in major works of Caribbean literature.

Email: kglover@barnard.edu

Office Location: 310 Milbank

Office Hours: TBA

Telephone: (212) 854 - 5412

Biography:	Kaiama L. Glover is an Assistant Professor in the French Department and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. Since receiving her doctorate from Columbia in 2002, she has been lecturing and publishing in the fields of postcolonial studies in general and Francophone literature in particular. Her classes focus on the literature and culture of the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and North Africa, but her primary research interest and passion of late has been Haiti. Her essay on the novels of the Haitian Spiralist authors appeared in the fall of 2005 in a volume of collected essays titled /Haiti: Writing under Siege/, and her article on the usefulness of the Haitian zombie as literary metaphor was published recently in /The Journal of Haitian Studies/. Since receiving a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year, she has been focused on the completion of a full-length study of the issue of canon formation in the postcolonial Caribbean. Most recently, she has begun researching the representation of "unhomely" women in major works of Caribbean literature.
Email:	kglover@barnard.edu
Office Location:	310 Milbank
Office Hours:	TBA
Telephone:	(212) 854 - 5412