Nick Nesbitt - University of Aberdeen

I received my PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) with a Minor in Brazilian Portuguese from Harvard University in 1997. I taught in the Department of French and Italian at Miami University (Ohio) from 1997-2007, and in 2003-4 I was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow at the Cornell University Society for the Humanities. My work in Francophone Studies focuses on the intellectual history of the black Atlantic world, addressing the modes of subjectivation (literary-textual, critical-theoretical, musical-visual, political) and events that have impelled individuals and communities beyond the limits of their given worlds. In 2003, I published Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature, a study of Antillean literature and black Atlantic critical theory. My second book project for University of Virginia Press is entitled Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (2008). The book interprets the Haitian Revolution in its relation to global modernity and the Spinozian Radical Enlightenment. I am also the editor of Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution (Verso 2008) and co-editor with Brian Hulse of the forthcoming volume Sounding the Virtual: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Music (Ashgate 2009). Currently working on book projects on global colonialism (with Jean-Godefroy Bidima), Antillean critical theory, and truth and political subjectivation.