Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on leave for the 2024–2025 academic year

Hanétha’s research and teaching interests include:

  • Black Studies
  • Caribbean and African Ideas
  • Caribbean and African Orature
  • Caribbean and African Philosophy
  • Caribbean and West and Central African Literature
  • Cross-Cultural Theories
  • Cross-Cultural Feminist and Africana Womanist Theories
  • Francophone Women’s Literature from West Africa, Central Africa and the Caribbean
  • French colonization and imperialism
  • French and Francophone Comparative Literature
  • Literature and philosophy
  • Literary Theory
  • Postcolonial Theory
  • Psychoanalytic approach to literature
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Education

  • PhD, General and Comparative Literatures, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 2004
  • DEA, Diplôme d’études approfondies in, Caraïbe, Amériques Latine et du Nord, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 1998
  • MA, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 1997
  • BA, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 1996