Kaiama Glover
Assistant Professor of French (Barnard College)

klg22@columbia.edu
310 Milbank Hall
(212) 854-5412

Kaiama L. Glover is an Assistant Professor in the French Department and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. Since receiving the doctorate from Columbia in 2002, Kaiama has been lecturing and publishing in the fields of post/colonial 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, with a particular focus on issues of marginalization within the already peripheral spaces of these (former) French colonies. Her essay on the novels of the Haitian literary phenomenon known as Spiralism 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 in 2006 in The Journal of Haitian Studies. Forthcoming this year in the Journal of Postcolonial Studies is "The Consequences of "Not-Paris,"" a look at the issue of canon formation in the post/colonial Francophone Caribbean. This essay, along with her longstanding work on the Spiralist writers, provides the foundation for the manuscript on which she is currently working, Zombies Become Warriors: the Spiralist Challenge to the Post/Colonial Canon.

Selected Bibliography

"Josephine Baker: a Century in the Spotlight," The Scholar and the Feminist Online, Barnard Center for Research on Women, spring 2008. (online journal)

"A Literature of Terror and Mourning" in Rob Fisher and Tobe Levin eds., Cultures of Violence 4, Editions Rodopi, 2007.

"Exploiting the Undead: the Usefulness of the Zombie Figure in Haitian Literature," in the Journal of Haitian Studies, fall 2006.

"Physical Internment and Creative Freedom: the Spiralist Contribution," in Kathleen Balutansky and Marie-Agn?s Sourieau eds., Haiti: Writing Under Siege, Editions Rodopi, 2005.

"Order, Disorder, and Freedom: an Homage to Maryse Cond," invited guest editor, special double edition of the Romanic Review, Columbia University Press, 2004.

"Sibylle Fischer. Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution." Duke University Press, 2004, for Research in African Literatures. (book review)