I am an author, scholar, editor, and professor. My books include *Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World*; *Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism*; *Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution*; and *The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe* (supported by a grant from the Robert Silvers Foundation). My articles on Haitian history and culture have appeared in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and journals including, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Essence, The Nation, and the LA Review of Books. I have won several awards, grants, and fellowships for my contributions to historical and cultural understandings of the Caribbean, notably from the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Haitian Studies Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a B.A. in English and French in 2002 and went on to teach in Rouen, France as an Assistante d’Anglais before enrolling at the University of Notre Dame, where I earned a Ph.D. in English in 2009. Since graduating, I have taught Haitian and French Colonial history and culture at the University of Miami, the Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Virginia, where I also became series editor of New World Studies at UVA Press. In July 2022, I was appointed as Professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University.