Join us to see Kaiama L. Glover, translator of Marie Vieux Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano, in conversation with performance artist Gina Athena Ulysse for the Haiti Cultural Exchange’s Black History Month program series.

Kaiama L. Glover received a B.A. in French History and Literature and Afro-American Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in French and Romance Philology from Columbia University. She is now an associate professor of French at Barnard College. Her book, Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon, explores the Haitian Spiralist movement. She sits on the editorial boards of the Romanic Review and Small Axe and regularly contributes to The New York Times Book Review.

Gina Athena Ulysse is a performance artist and associate professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University. Born in Haiti, she has lived in the United States for over thirty years. Ulysse is the author of Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, Self-Making in Jamaica, and Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle.