Speakers

  • Régine Michelle Jean-Charles
  • Director of Africana Studies and the Dean's Professor of Culture and Social Justice
  • Northeastern University

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic who works at the intersection of race, gender, and justice. She is currently the Director of Africana Studies and the Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice at Northeastern University. Jean-Charles is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Ohio State University Press, 2014), and The Trumpet of Conscience Today (Orbis Press, 2021) as well as the forthcoming Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (University of Virginia Press). She is also a regular contributor to media outlets like The Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine, and WGBH, where she has weighed in on topics including #metoo, higher education, and issues affecting the Haitian diaspora.

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