10/28/2025
By Monica Melo

The Department of World Languages & Cultures, and co-sponsored by the Department of English Presents: The Maroon Cosmopoetics: Memory & Embodiment in the Works of Tessa Mars and Elizabeth Acevedo

Monday, November 10
2-3:15 p.m.
Coburn 275

Carine Schermann is a doctoral candidate in Francophone and Caribbean Studies at Florida State University. Her current research focuses on Haitian and Dominican shared imaginaries of shapeshifting in the common folklore of the island, its literatures, visual arts, and its inspirations in contemporary activist and anti-racist movements. She received the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship in 2023-24, and she is the African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College for 2025-26. She has published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites and the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies. Before starting her doctorate, she lived seven years in Port-au-Prince, where she worked for FOKAL, a cultural and social organization; and co-created the multidisciplinary journal Trois/Cent/Soixante.

In English and open to all

For more information: email kristen_stern@uml.edu