Chelsea Stieber

Chelsea Stieber specializes in 19th-century Caribbean literature, history, and culture with an emphasis on Haiti. Her research engages local print culture; the relationship between literature and politics; ideas of freedom, rights, and republicanism; and Black Atlantic thought.

She is the author of "Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954" (New York University Press, 2020) and co-editor with Brandon R. Byrd of the critical translation of Louis-Joseph Janvier’s "Haiti for the Haitians" (Liverpool University Press, 2023). Her scholarship and essays have appeared in academic journals including Small Axe, Francosphères, French Studies, the Haitian Historical Review and the Journal of Haitian Studies, and digital platforms such as Africa is a Country, The Abusable Past (RHR), and Public Books.

She is currently working on two book projects. The first is an exploration of writing from free people of color in the Antilles during the period of general emancipation and its aftermath. The second is a project on Caribbean Fascism, for which she was awarded an ACLS fellowship. Stieber is associate editor for the journal Nineteenth-Century French Studies.