The Poetry Project

Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover is Professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon. She is completing a biography, “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life” and an essay collection, “‘Blackness’ in French: Race Matters in Translation.” Professor Glover is an award-winning translator of francophone literature, the founding co-editor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and the founding co-director of In the Same Boats, an Afro-Atlantic Digital Cartography. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the NYPL Cullman Center.