Carine Schermann
Carine Schermann is a PhD Candidate in Francophone and Caribbean Studies at Florida State University. Her research explores Haitian and Dominican shared imaginaries of shapeshifting in the island’s literatures and visual arts, as well as their resonances in contemporary activist and anti-racist movements.
She is the recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (2023-24) and currently serves as the African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College (2025-26). Her work has been published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites and the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies.
Before beginning her PhD, she lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for seven years, where she worked with FOKAL, a cultural and social organization, and co-founded the multidisciplinary journal Trois/Cent/Soixante. Prior to that, she studied in Paris, France, completing a BA in Literature and an MA in Political Sciences and International Relations.
She is the recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (2023-24) and currently serves as the African and African Diaspora Studies Dissertation Fellow at Boston College (2025-26). Her work has been published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites and the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies.
Before beginning her PhD, she lived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, for seven years, where she worked with FOKAL, a cultural and social organization, and co-founded the multidisciplinary journal Trois/Cent/Soixante. Prior to that, she studied in Paris, France, completing a BA in Literature and an MA in Political Sciences and International Relations.
Photo credit: Alexandra Poteau.
