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Specialization:
- African Diaspora
- Caribbean literature
- Post-colonial Literature
- Haitian literature, culture, history
- Gender and transnationalism
- Migration and identity
- Anti-colonialism and Decoloniality
Education:
- Ph.D., African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2009)
- M.A., African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2003)
- M.A., Humanities, University of Chicago (2000)
- B.A. English Literature, Hampton University (1999)
Bio:
Nadège T. Clitandre is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where she holds affiliate appointments in the Department of Black Studies and the Comparative Literature Program. She is the author of Edwidge Danticat: The Haitian Diasporic Imaginary (2018) and co-editor of two volumes: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat (2021) and Remembrance: Loss, Hope, Recovery after the Earthquake in Haiti (2016). Clitandre is the recipient of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009) and the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2004).Clitandre is also the founder of Haiti Soleil, a nonprofit organization that focuses on engaging youth and building community through the development of libraries in Haiti.
Research:
Clitandre works on theoretical frameworks of the African Diaspora and articulations of the global imaginary. She examines the linked relationship among migration, displacement, and transnationalism with a particular focus on Haiti and Haitian diasporic literature. Her teaching interests include diaspora as concept, anticolonial literature and decolonial struggles, postcolonial Caribbean Women’s literature, the cultural contours of globalization, and NGO and Humanitarian intervention in Haiti post-earthquake. Her next project explores the concept of exceptionalism.
Projects:
Haiti Sustainable Development Collaborative (Carrefour-Feuilles Redevelopment Project): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bkP5RWdCGQ
Haitian Migrants in Latin America Research project, a Haitian Studies Initiatives project at The Center for the Global Study of Race, Inequality and Justice
Publications:
Review of Approaches to Teaching the Work of Edwidge Danticat, H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences (H-Haiti, March 2023)
"A Soulful Life at Work” Foreword in Narrating History, Home and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat. Eds. Maia L Butler et Al., University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Courses:
Undergraduate
- Global Diasporas and Cultural Change (104)
- Global Linkages of the African Diaspora (Global 146)
- Haiti: Local Realities Global Influences (Global 147)
- Caribbean Women Writers and Migratory Subjects (Global 148)
- Global Ethics and Culture ( Global 110)
Graduate
- The Human in Humanitarian Aid (Special Topics)
- Global Culture, Ideology and Religion (Global 222)
- Theories of Diaspora: Migration, Identity, Culture (Global 254)