Kaiama L. Glover

Professor of French and Africana Studies

Barnard College, Columbia University

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has written extensively about Caribbean literature in her books A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, and is the prize-winning translator of several works of francophone fiction and non-fiction. She is currently writing an intellectual biography titled “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life.” Her work has been supported by fellowships at the New York Public Library Cullman Center, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Mellon Foundation. She contributes regularly to the New York Times Book Review and is the co-host of WRITING HOME | American Voices from the Caribbean.