Event

J. Michael Dash, Professor of French and Director of the Africana Studies Program at New York University, will present a lecture, titled “Rising from the Ruins: Haiti, the Next Two Hundred Years,” on Thursday 18^th February, 2010, at 5 pm, at the CLL Auditorium.

About J. Michael Dash

J. Michael Dash, born in Trinidad, has worked extensively on Haitian Literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Edouard Glissant, whose works The Ripening (1985) and Caribbean Discourse (1989) he has translated into English. After twenty-one years at The University of the West Indies, where he was Professor of Francophone Literature and Chair of Modern Languages, he is now Professor of French at New York University and Director of the Africana Studies Program.

His Publications include, Literature and Ideology in Haiti (1981), Haiti and the United States (1988), Edouard Glissant (1995). His most recent translation is The Drifting of the Spirits (1999), with Charles Arthur and Culture and Customs of Haiti (2001). He is presently working on Surrealism in the Francophone Caribbean.