Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of African American Studies. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP, 2021) and of Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP, 2012), among several other publications, and the prize-winning translator of several works of Haitian prose fiction and francophone non-fiction. She is currently completing a manuscript titled “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life.” Her scholarly and translation work has been supported by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She is a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review and is the co-host of the podcast WRITING HOME | American Voices from the Caribbean.