Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Affiliate Faculty in African American Studies and Women"s Studies

251 McMicken Hall
513-558-7367
jana.braziel@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Jana Evans Braziel is is the author of three forthcoming books: DIASPORA: AN INTRODUCTION (Blackwell, 2008); ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, AND BLACK MASCULINITY IN THE HAITIAN DIASPORA (Indiana University Press, 2008); and CARIBBEAN GENESIS: JAMAICA KINCAID AND THE WRITING OF NEW WORLDS (SUNY, 2009). Braziel has published articles in Cultural Critique; Small Axe; Callaloo; Comparative American Studies; Women & Performance; Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism; Journal of Haitian Studies; Popular Music and Society; A/B: Auto/Biography Studies; Tessera; Journal x; Studies in the Literary Imagination; and The Journal of North African Studies. She has also co-edited four collections: ERASING PUBLIC MEMORY: RACE, AESTHETICS, AND CULTURAL AMNESIA IN THE AMERICAS, with Joseph Young (Mercer University Press, 2007); RACE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF KNOWLEDGES: CULTURAL AMNESIA IN THE ACADEMY, also with Joseph Young (University of Illinois Press, 2006); THEORIZING DIASPORA: A READER, with Anita Mannur (Blackwell, 2003); and BODIES OUT OF BOUNDS: FATNESS AND TRANSGRESSION, with Kathleen LeBesco (U of California Press, 2001).

Research Interests

Diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization; trans-Atlantic black studies (primarily Caribbean, Canadian, and U.S., secondarily British); trans-American, diasporic, and migrant literatures in the Caribbean, Canada, and U.S.; critical race, postcolonial, feminist, and queer theories; American cultural studies and constructions of race, gender, nationality, sexuality.

Research Support

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar: "Faulkner and Southern History", Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina-Columbia. Funded 06-2005 to 07-2005.

Summer Research Fellowship, Taft Memorial Fund, University of Cincinnati. Funded 2005

Faculty Research Grant, University Research Council (URC), University of Cincinnati. Funded 2004

Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA), Five Colleges, Inc. Amherst, Massachusetts. Funded 2002 to 2003.

Faculty Research Grant, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Funded 2001 to 2002.

International Faculty Development Grant, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Funded 2001

Library Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida. Funded 2001

Institute on Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin System. Funded 2001 to 2002.

Carlyn and Ethyl Dahler Faculty Development Fund, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse . Funded 2001 to 2002.

University-Wide Graduate Student Fellow, Graduate School, University of Massachusetts. Funded 1996 to 1997.

Travel Grant, Dean of the Graduate School, University of Massachusetts . Funded 1996

Travel Grant, Dean of the Graduate School, University of Massachusetts. Funded 1996

Invited Presentations

(05-2007). Femm(e)rotics: Sex, Excess, and Whiteness in 20th Century Cultural Production. Department of Women’s Studies, Ohio State University.

(02-2006). ’He came to kill the preacher’: Saints, Martyrs, Torturers, and Post-Duvalierist Revenants in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker. Department of English, Duke University Press.

(03-2006). Haiti, Guantánamo, and the ‘One Indispensable Nation': U.S. Imperialism, ‘Apparent States,’ and Postcolonial Problematics of Sovereignty. African and African American Studies Department, University of Florida.

(04-2005). Guantánamo: Transnational, ‘Imperial Tendrils’ of the One ‘Indispensable Nation’ and Haitian Diasporic Arts of Resistance. Nervous Borders: People and Culture Flows since 9/11, Sponsored by the Cultural Studies program and the Center for Global Studies, George Mason University .

(01-2005). Rethinking the ‘Black Atlantic’: Trans-American Regimes of Violence (1993-2004), Epistemological Occlusions. Department of English, University of Iowa.

(01-2003). ’The Cry of Mad Birds’—Haitian Diasporic Literatures, the War Machine, and State Terror in a Transnational Context. African American Studies, Northwestern University.

(01-2002). Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations: Narrative Coming of Age in the Writings of Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid. Department of English, Spelman College.

(12-2002). Trans-American Crossroads: Race, Revolt, and Vodou in Haiti and the U.S.. Africana Studies Department, Bowdoin College.

(11-2002). ’The Cry of Mad Birds’—Haitian Diasporic Literatures, the War Machine, and State Terror in a Transnational Context. Amherst College

(04-2000). Edwidge Danticat’s (Anglophone) Crossings of L’Amérique and Haïti. Women’s Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Lectures

(10-2007). Haiti, Black Internationalism, and U.S. Imperialism. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA.

(12-2006). Expenditure, Excess, and Expendable Bodies: Detention and Questions of Sovereignty. MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

(12-2006). Transnationalist Regimes of Violence: Brooklyn, Fort-Dimanche, and the Duvalierist State in Raoul Peck’s Haitian Corner. MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

(10-2006). Haiti, Black Internationalism, and U.S. Imperialism. Annual Conference of the American Studies Association, Oakland, CA.

(03-2006). BOOSH-WA? Or, BASQUIAT? New York’s Ethnic Cityscapes in Edo Bertoglio’s Downtown 81 and Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat. Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Vancouver.

(12-2005). Dissenting Notes From "JesusLand". MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

(12-2005). Transnationalist Regimes of Violence: Brooklyn, Fort-Dimanche, and the Duvalierist State in Raoul Peck’s Haitian Corner. MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

(12-2005). Môle-St. Nicolas, Guantánamo, and Late 19th Century Imperial Designs: Challenges to the U.S. Military State Apparatus by Frederick Douglass and José Martí. MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

(08-2005). Caribbean Genesis. International American Studies Association (IASA), Ottawa, Canada.

(12-2005). ’To battle Shell in the oilfields’: Ecocritiques of Capital, Masculinity, and Oil in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon. MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

(04-2005). Transnationalist Regimes of Violence: Brooklyn, Fort-Dimanche, and the Duvalierist State in Raoul Peck’s Haitian Corner. Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), London.

(03-2005). Rethinking the ‘Black Atlantic’: Trans-American Regimes of Violence (1993-2004): From Guantánamo to Abu Ghraib. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Penn State University .

(03-2005). 'I am become death’: Visagéité and Military State Apparati according to Deleuze and Guattari; Or, Violent Love (De)Facing the Other in Nicole Brossard’s Desert Mauve. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Penn State University.

(12-2004). Performing Clytie in Dominica: Disarticulating Sexuality’s Plantation Myths in The Autobiography of My Mother. MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

(12-2004). Honey, Honey, Miss Thing”: Drag Queen Blues (Assotto Saint) and Drag King Dyasporas (Mildréd Gerestant) in Haiti’s 10th Département. MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

(12-2004). Haiti, Mississippi, Martinique: Sutpen’s Hundred, Glissant’s Faulkner, and Antillean detours through the American ‘South’. MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

(10-2004). ’Lapè nan vant’ (Peace in the Belly): Hunger, Poverty, and Food Economies—Dany Laferrière’s Satirical Critiques of International Development in Pays sans chapeau. Haitian Studies Association (HSA) 2004 Conference, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.

(11-2004). Défilée’s Diasporic Daughters: Revolutionary Narratives of Ayiti—Nation and Diaspora. American Studies Association (ASA) 2004 Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

(11-2004). Revolutionary Daughters, Diasporic Daughters: Défilée’s Legacy in Literary Texts by Haitian Diasporic Women Writers. American Studies Association (ASA) 2004 Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

(06-2004). The ‘Cannibal Army’, U.S. Imperialism, and the Unpalatability of Haiti. Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

(03-2004). Wyclef Jean's Diasporic Remix as Trans-Atlantic Play/Transnational Political Protest. Caribbean Soundscapes: A Conference on Caribbean Musics and Culture, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

(04-2004). Honey, Honey, Miss Thing”: Drag Queen Blues (Assotto Saint) and Drag King Dyasporas (Mildréd Gerestant) in Haiti’s 10th Département. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Ann Arbor, MI.

(04-2004). Remembering Revolution, Re-Membering Défilée: Haitian and Haitian Diasporic Women Writers. Spelman College (Atlanta) and the University of Georgia (Athens).

(06-2004). Daughters of Défilée, Daughters of Dyaspora: Edwidge Danticat’s Alterbiographic Narratives of Ayiti—Nation and Diaspora. Haitian Independence Bicentenary Conference: Re-interpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks, 1804–2004, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

(12-2002). Race, Créolité, and Genocide in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother. MLA Annual Convention, New York.

(11-2002). Duvalier’s ‘War-Machine,’ the Tonton Macoutes, and Terrorized Bodies in Edwidge Danticat’s Transnational Narratives. American Studies Association (ASA), Houston, TX.

(06-2002). ’Lifting Belly’ and Discovering the joie de manger of Fat Political Discourses—Or, how Gertrude’s (Stein) Loves to Queer Julia’s (Child)—Or, Bisexuality, Fat Politics, and the Dangerous Desires of Eating. 23rd Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Las Vegas, Nevada .

(04-2002). Race, Créolité, and Genocide in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras .

(11-2001). Natural Elements, Unnatural Acts, and Historical Roots/Routes in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts. Fourth International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL), Trois Ilets, Martinique .

(06-2001). Trans-America, Trans-Caribbean, and Diasporic Transmutations of Autobiography. (Re)Thinking Caribbean Culture, The University of the West Indies (Cave Hill Campus, Barbados).

(04-2001). Migrating in Khatibi’s Maghreb: Bilangue, Bisexuality, Tattoos, and ‘Two-Tongued Sex’. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), University of Colorado-Boulder.

(12-2000). Trans-America . . . Edwidge Danticat’s (Anglophone) Crossings of L’Amérique and Haïti. MLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C..

(02-2000). Comparative Diasporas, Migratory Intensities, Nomadic Becomings. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Yale University.

(04-2000). Bye, Bye Baby: Race, Bisexuality and the Blues in the Music of Bessie Smith and Janis Joplin. LGBT Studies Lecture Series, The Stonewall Center, University of Massachusetts.

(12-1999). La langue—cette inconnue: Nomadism, Language and Paternity in Linda Lê’s Calomnies. MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL.

(04-1999). Resisting Migration: Nomadism and Deracination in Contemporary Francophone Novels. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Montréal, Québec .

(04-1999). Qu’est-ce qu’une québécoise? Spatiality, Sexuality and Nicole Brossard’s ‘virtuelle. Annual Conference of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Pittsburgh, PA.

(01-1999). Skin: Graffitied Flesh, Corpulence and Gender Transgression in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart. Violence in Film and Literature, Florida State University.

(11-1998). Across the desert and into the city . . . Constructing Urban Space in the Works of Nicole Brossard. The American Council for Quebec Studies (ACQS).

(09-1998). Bodies Out of Bounds: Interrogating Constructions of Corpulence and Fat. Speech Communication Department, University of Georgia.

(08-1998). Being and Time, Non-Being and Space: An Ontological Study on ‘Woman’ and Chora. Eighth Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh), Boston College.

(03-1998). Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt Speaking in Tongues: Écriture et Traduction au féminin. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), University of Texas at Austin.

(11-1997). Dissolution and Other Deleuzian Traversals in Flora Balzano’s Soigne ta chute. Biennial Conference for the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), Minneapolis, MN.

(10-1997). L’Amour, ses cris (s’écrit): Bilingualism and Love in Khatibi’s Amour bilingue and Djebar’s L’Amour, la fantasia. Retrospect on Twentieth Century Literature and Film, University of West Virginia.

(10-1997). Dissolution and Other Deleuzian Traversals in Flora Balzano’s Soigne ta chute. Identity, Culture and Citizenship: New Perspectives on Governance in Canada, (Five Colleges).

(04-1997). The Hysterical Corpus: Irigaray on the ‘Body without Organs’ and the ‘Becoming ‘Woman’ of Deleuze and Guattari. Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), University of Notre Dame, IN .

(02-1997). Corpulence: Toward a Nomadic Corporeality and the Deterritorialization of the Fat Female Body. The Third Annual Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference, New York University.

(10-1996). ’WOW’: Bodily Inscriptions and Nomadic Subjectivities in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid. 25th Annual Conference on South Asia, Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

Courses Taught

15-ENGB-300 INTRO: STUDY OF LIT.

15-ENGC-366 CARIBBEAN LIT.

15-ENGC-399 INTRO LIT THEORY.

15-ENGC-402 SEM: COMP LIT .

15-ENGC-706 APP TO LIT THEORY .

15-ENGC-806 PROBS IN LIT THEOR .

15-ENGL-207 AMERICAN WRITERS.

15-ENGL-208 AMERICAN WRITERS.

15-ENGL-302 SURVEY-AMERICAN LIT.

15-ENGL-303 SURVEY-AMERICAN LIT.

15-ENGL-312 AMER FIC 1910-1950.

15-ENGL-341 INTR:AM ETHNIC LIT.

15-ENGL-591 INDIVIDUAL WORK .