Marlene L. Daut

Professor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University and author of "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025); "Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865" (Liverpool UP, 2015); "Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism" (Palgrave, 2017); "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (U. of North Carolina Press, 2023); and co-editor of "Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology" (U. of Virginia Press, 2022) and "A History of Haitian Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2024). For more information: https://marlenedaut.com