Certificat en Linguistique, Centre de Linguistique, Haiti
PH.D French, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jasmine Claude-Narcisse is assistant professor of Francophone and Creole Haitian Studies at York College, CUNY. Her interests are the rhetoric of the self in Haitian literature, Caribbean autobiography, Race and Identity politics, Translation, Caribbean post-coloniality, Human Rights. Former head of the Haitian Book Centre and curator the annual Haitian Book Day, sponsored by York College, CUNY (2002 – 14). In 2012, as assistant to the director of the Henri Peyre French Institute, CUNY and then a member of its Board of Directors, she has spearheaded the Institute’s continuous programming on Haiti, including the Haiti Rencontres series in 2012, and the three-year seminar Impunity, Responsibility and Citizenship – HAITI that concluded by a three-day international conference, in March 2016. Currently a member of the scientific committee of the academic Haitian History Journal, Dr Claude-Narcisse is also actively involved in the work of the collective Jean-Claude Charles which aims to revisit and promote his contribution to literature and global thought through conferences, symposia and publications of a critical apparatus of his oeuvre. She is working on a critical translation of the essay Le corps noir of Jean-Claude Charles. She is also the President of Haiti Futur US, a non-profit organization offering support to schools in disadvantaged areas of Haiti.
M.A., French Literature, Hunter College CUNY
B.A., English Literature with a minor in French, City College CUNY
Anna’s dissertation “Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France” was completed in 2021. She was the general editor of and a regular contributor to the Henri Peyre French Institute’s food blog (2016-2022). Anna teaches at Hunter College CUNY and Baruch College CUNY.
Past Director
Medieval and 16th Century Literature and Folklore, Gender and Queer Theory, French and Francophone Cultural Studies, Historical Anthropology, Folklore
Books:
Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender . General Editor, Fedwa Malti-Douglas. Assoc. eds: Francesca Canadé Sautman, Jamsheed Choksy and Judith Roof. 4 vols. NY: Scribner/Gale/Macmillan, 2007.
Same-Sex Love and Desire Among Medieval Women, ed., with Pamela Sheingorn. New York: St. Martins’ Press/Palgrave, 2001.
Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition (with Diana Conchado and Giuseppe di Scipio). New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
La Religion du Quotidien: Rites et croyances populaires de la fin du Moyen Age, Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, Biblioteca di Lares, 1995.
Journal Editor:
Medieval Folklore, (the Edwin Mellen Press). Francesca Canadé Sautman and Madeleine Jeay, editors. An international, interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of folklore in the Middle Ages and the XVIth century, published yearly, indexed. Vol.1, no.1, Spring 1991; Vol.2, Fall 1992; Vol. 3, Fall 1994.
Merveilles et Contes-Marvels and Tales (University of Colorado at Boulder), Jacques Barchilon and Francesca Canadé Sautman, co-editors, May 1987-May 1994.
Editor, special issue (with guest editor Veronika Görög-Karady), Approaches to the African Folk Tale: Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Tradition, 6, 2 (December 1992).
See more at → https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/francesca-canade-sautman