Chelsea B. Stieber

Associate Professor- French

Kathryn B. Gore Chair in Nineteenth Century French Studies
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
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Courses

The Haitian Revolution, Voix d’esclaves/Voices of the enslaved

Research

Haiti, nineteenth-century Caribbean literature, history, and culture

Degrees

  • Ph.D., New York University, French/French Studies, 2013
  • M.A., New York University, French/French Studies, 2007
  • B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, French and Comparative Literature, 2006

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Catholic University of America 2020-2023
  • Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, 2013-2020

Distinctions

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2020–2021
  • John W. Kluge Center Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2016–2017
  • Dissertation Fellowship, New York University, 2012–2013
  • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, New York University, 2011–2012

Languages

  • French
  • Haitian Creole

Overseas Experience

  • Haiti
  • France

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Refuting Pro-Colonial discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Pamphlets,” in American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History, Glenda Goodman and Rhae Lynn Barnes, eds. (forthcoming University of Pennsylvania Press 2024)
  • 2023. “Haïti farà da se: French Third Republican Colonial Universalism and Louis Joseph Janvier’s Haitian Autonomy,” in Haiti for the Haitians, Brandon R. Byrd and Chelsea Stieber, eds. (Liverpool University Press 2023)
  • 2023. “The Heritage of Haitian Combat Writing in Félix Darfour’s L’Eclairieur haytien and L’Avertisseur - Haytien,” Revue d’Histoire Haïtienne/Haitian History Review 1.3 (2023): 381–410.
  • 2022. “Mémoire and Vindicationism in Revolutionary Saint-Domingue,” Small Axe 67 (2022): 30–54.