A series of events exploring issues in Haiti

 

Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse Performance artist and Wesleyan professor "Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, Me and The World"   Monologue weaving spoken word, Vodou chants and theory.	Date: March 7, 2011 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Bucknell Hall
Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse "When the Body is a Country's Archives; Some Women's Stories of Trauma, Stories of Will"   Talk recounting conversations with women in Haiti and abroad since the Jan. 12 earthquake	Date: March 8, 2011 Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: LC Forum
Third World Film Series "Poto Mitan: Haitian Women, Pillars of the Global Economy"   2009 documentary narrated by Edwidge Danticat	Date: March 10, 2011 Time: 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. Location: Coleman 151
Dr. Eric Martin Assistant professor of management, Bucknell University "Haiti: A Year after the Quake"   Prof. Martin discusses his recent trip to Haiti and the rebuilding efforts	Date: March 23, 2011 Time: 11:30 a.m. Location: LC, Center Room
Edwidge Danticat Haitian-American author of Krik? Krak!, Breath, Eyes, Memory, and Brother, I'm Dying   Edwidge Danticat, will speak as part of the ongoing Bucknell Forum series on Creativity.	Date: April 12, 2011 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Trout Auditorium, Marts Hall
Amber Gray , '83 Founder and directory of trauma resources International Multimedia presentation "Dancing in Our Blood: Creative Resistance and recovery Work in Haiti"   Kick-off event for the annual Black Arts Festival	Date: April 14, 2011 Time: 4:30 p.m. Location: Hunt Hall Living Room
Dr. Alex Dupuy, Wesleyan University Professor of sociology at Wesleyan University "Class, Power, and Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake"   Talk examining the notion that Haiti lost sovereignty with the creation of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission following the earthquake	Date: April 21, 2011 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: LC Forum

 

Faculty expertise

Mara de Gennaro holds a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University. She specializes in comparative modernist and postcolonial studies with an emphasis on British and Caribbean literatures. Her book-in-progress examines how poetic imagination has been conceived by Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Derek Walcott, among others, to promote transnational forms of identification and solidarity. Her most recent article traces the evolution of négritude from Césaire's lyric poetry and cultural theory to the work of Kamau Brathwaite.

Michael Drexler is an associate professor of English. He is the editor of Leonora Sansay's Secret History; or the Horrors of St. Domingo, an 1808 novel set in pre-independent Haiti. He is also editor of Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature. His co-authored essay, "The Constitution of Toussaint," will appear in the Blackwell Companion to African-American Literature. Along with Ed White, he is completing a book titled The Traumatic Colonel; or, The Burr of American Literature, that argues that Haiti was fundamental to U.S. culture at the turn of the 19th century.

Carmen R. Gillespie, professor of English and creative writing, received her Ph.D. from Emory University. She also serves as the director of the Bucknell Griot Institute. She is a scholar of American, African-American and Caribbean literatures and cultures and a poet. Her recent work in Caribbean studies includes a poetry manuscript on the Jonestown, Guyana, massacre titled Jonestown: A Vexation.

Renée Gosson holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is an associate professor of French and Francophone Studies. Her research concentrates on the neocolonial French presence in Martinique, read through various cultural sites: literature, landscape, commemorative statues and music. She is currently investigating the major French port cities that participated in the slave trade and the efforts to remember and/or commemorate the slave trade, slavery and their abolitions since the 2001 passing of the Loi Taubira, which recognized slavery as a crime against humanity.

Linden Lewis is Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department and the current president of the Caribbean Studies Association. He specializes in matters of Caribbean gender relations, with special emphasis on the construction of Caribbean masculinity. In addition, he also does research on globalization, race, human rights, the state and labor relations. He is the editor of The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean, and Color, Hair, and Bone: Race in the Twenty-first Century.

Shara McCallum has published two books of poems, Song of Thieves and The Water Between Us. Individual poems have been published widely, in the U.S., Caribbean, Latin America, U.K., and Israel; have been featured in textbooks and anthologies of American, African-American, Caribbean and world poetry; and have been translated into Spanish and Romanian. Originally from Jamaica, she directs the Stadler Center for Poetry and is an associate professor of English.

Paul Susman is a professor of geography and Latin American studies who has studied disasters and development issues in the broader Caribbean region and Central America. He has participated in the Bucknell Brigades to Nicaragua since 2001 and conducts research on efforts to create economic opportunity for post-disaster and marginalized populations and possibilities for cooperative enterprises in Nicaragua, especially since Hurricane Mitch.

Hilbourne A. Watson is professor of international relations. He specializes in globalization, international relations theory, and U.S.-Caribbean relations, and teaches "International Relations: Caribbean" (IREL 230), which includes coverage of Haiti in the Caribbean and the wider global context. Among his most recent publications are "Raciology, Garveyism and the Limits of Black Nationalism in the Caribbean Diaspora," Shibboleths 2.2 (2008): 85-95; "Alienation and Fetishization: A Critical Analysis of 'Radicalism and Innovation' in the New World Group's Approach to and Rejection of Metropolitan Intellectual and Political Hegemony," Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2, 2008; and "W. Arthur Lewis and the New World Group: Variations within the Analytic Framework of Neoclassical Economics," Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Vol. XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2, 2008.