Narcisse, Marie

Assistant Professor

World Languages, Literatures, and Humanities

Phone: 718-262-2440
Office Location: AC-3D10
Email: mnarcisse@york.cuny.edu

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Professor Jasmine Claude-Narcisse is assistant professor of Francophone and Creole Haitian Studies at York College, CUNY. Her interests are the rhetoric of the self in Haitian literature, Caribbean autobiography, Race and Identity politics, Translation, Caribbean post-coloniality, Human Rights. Former head of the Haitian Book Centre and curator the annual Haitian Book Day, sponsored by York College, CUNY (2002 – 14). In 2012, as assistant to the director of the Henri Peyre French Institute, CUNY and then a member of its Board of Directors, she has spearheaded the Institute’s continuous programming on Haiti, including the Haiti Rencontres series in 2012, and the three-year seminar Impunity, Responsibility and Citizenship – HAITI that concluded by a three-day international conference, in March 2016. Currently a member of the scientific committee of the academic Haitian History Journal, Dr Claude-Narcisse is also actively involved in the work of the collective Jean-Claude Charles which aims to revisit and promote his contribution to literature and global thought through conferences, symposia and publications of a critical apparatus of his oeuvre. She is working on a critical translation of the essay Le corps noir of Jean-Claude Charles. She is also the President of Haiti Futur US, a non-profit organization offering support to schools in disadvantaged areas of Haiti.

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Areas of Expertise

• French and Francophone Literature and Philosophy
• Writing and archiving of the Self
• Francophone Caribbean Autobiography
• Creole Identity
• Politics of (Self)Identity
• Politics of Race
• Race Theory
• Human Rights
• Translation Practicum and Theory (French – Creole – English)
• Haiti

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