Join IRADAC (Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean) for the launching of Duncan Faherty’s new book The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers. He will be in discussion with: Elizabeth Maddox Dillon (Northeastern), Robert Reid-Pharr (NYU), and David Waldstreicher (GC) on March 7 from 4 – 6 pm in room 5114. Please RSVP to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-haitian-revolution-in-the-early-republic-of-letters-incipient-fevers-tickets-838372894897 

Duncan Faherty is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Queens College & The Graduate Center. He is also currently the Acting Director of the Committee on Globalization & Social Change.

Elizabeth Maddox Dillon, Northeastern University teaches courses in the fields of early American literature, Atlantic theatre and performance, and transatlantic print culture. She is the author of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849 (Duke University Press, 2014), which won the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History from the American Society for Theatre Research

Robert Reid-Pharr, New York University, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and English, Social and Cultural Analysis (Full Time Faculty)Arts and Science, is the author of four books: Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique (NYU Press, 2016), Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (NYU Press, 2007), Black Gay Man: Essays (NYU Press, 2001), and Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American (1999).

David Waldstreicher, The Graduate Center, is a historian of early and nineteenth-century America with particular interests in political history, cultural history, slavery and antislavery, and print culture. His latest book, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence, is the most deeply researched biography of the poet.

Co-sponsored by The Ph.D. Programs in English and History, the American Studies and Africana Studies Certificate Programs, and the Committee on Globalization and Social Change.