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Professor at Yale University
Marlene L. Daut is Professor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. She is the author of "Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); "Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865" (Liverpool University Press, 2015); "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (University of North Carolina Press, 2023); and "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, January 2025). She is also co-editor (with Grégory Pierrot and Marion Rohrleitner) of the volume, Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA Press, 2022) and with Kaiama L. Glover of "A History of Haitian Literature."