Rachel Douglas was appointed Lecturer in French at the
University of Glasgow in October 2013, after six years as Lecturer in
Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Liverpool. She
studied at the University of Oxford, Somerville College (BA Hons), the
University of Edinburgh (MSc and PhD), and at the École normale
supérieure in Paris.
A specialist on Haiti and the Caribbean, Dr Douglas is author of
Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (2009), and is currently
completing a monograph, provisionally entitled C.L.R. James’s ‘The Black
Jacobins’: Rewriting the Haitian Revolution, funded by an Arts and
Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship. She has published
widely on Caribbean literature and film in French and English; on
questions of rewriting, autotranslation and the literary in postcolonial
contexts; on postcolonial visual cultures, and on Caribbean writers
including Frankétienne, Dany Laferrière, C.L.R. James, Marie Chauvet,
Kamau Brathwaite, Maryse Condé, Derek Walcott, and Édouard Glissant.
Dr Douglas recently hosted two extremely successful events in Glasgow
and Edinburgh to mark the visit of Haiti's major writer and artist
Frankétienne, 17–21 March 2014, which showcased his outstanding visual,
verbal, dramatic and acoustic art. More information here: http://talkingabouthaiti.wordpress.com/.
She also hosted three prominent black history month events across two
cities, Liverpool and Glasgow: The first performance since 1936 of
precursor to C.L.R. James's classic history of the Haitian revolution
The Black Jacobins, which started life as a play with Paul Robeson in
the lead; 'The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference',
27–28 October 2013, International Slavery Museum and the Bluecoat,
Liverpool, and the 'Talking About Haiti' workshop, 29 October 2013,
University of Glasgow.
Professional Memberships
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Society for Postcolonial Studies (Executive Committee member)
Haiti Support Group (Executive Committee member)
Society for French Studies
Society for the Study of French History
Association for the Study of Modern & Contemporary France
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