Irline Francois

Irline François PhD is an Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Goucher College, Maryland. She teaches courses on Transnational Feminist Theory, Latin American Women’s Social Movements, Haitian History/Culture of Resistance as Expressed in the Arts, Francophone Caribbean Women’s writers, and Gender and Migration. She was a Fulbright Teaching/Research Award Recipient to Brazil 2010-2011, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Professor François was also a FMS Mellon fellow at Cornell University in 2009, and a Research Fellow at the Women’s Center (Archivio delle Donne) at the University of Naples, Italy (2007). Her areas of expertise include Caribbean literature, Afro-Latin, Afro-Diasporic Media and Film Studies, and Diasporic/Women of Color feminisms. She has translated from French to English, Mémoire d’une Amnésique [Memoir of an Amnesiac] by Jan Dominique (2008), and also published several articles and a book chapter on Francophone, Caribbean and Latin American women writers. Her edited volume, “One Love? Engendering History and Memory in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures was published in Spring 2018 by Cambridge Scholars Press. She is also completing a manuscript entitled, Longings, Belongings and Un-belongings: Haunting Narratologies in Haiti and the Americas. It examines how historical haunting has impacted the Afro-gendered subject in the Americas.