Irline François - Goucher College, Maryland

Irline François is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Comparative Literatures at Goucher College, Maryland, USA. Her most recent publication is the translation of the novel from the French into English of Jan Dominique’s Memoir of an Amnesiac [Mémoire d’une Amnésique published by Caribbean Studies Press in 2008. Her articles have appeared in Ma Comère: The Journal of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, Transatlantiques: Atlantic Cross-Currents and Les Editions Rodopi. Her next manuscript examines the ways Pan-Caribbean writers, in semi-autobiographical art, film and literature disrupt and transform traditional definitions of nationhood and citizenship in the era of trans-nationalism.