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CHARLY VERSTRAET
Curriculum Vitae
charly.verstraet@gmail.com

CAMPUS: HOME:
CALLAWAY MEMORIAL CENTER N408 700 PRINCETON STREET
537 S KILGO CIRCLE RALEIGH, NC 27609
ATLANTA, GA 30322 919-624-4644

EDUCATION____________________________________________________

2019 (Spring) Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies

Department of French & Italian, Emory University
Dissertation: “Abyssal Shores: The Caribbean Coastline Untold”

2014 M.A. in French Language and Literature

Department of Romance Languages, North Carolina State
University
Master’s thesis: “A la recherche de l’identité perdue dans
L’empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau”

2012 B.A. in British and American Literatures, Languages and

Cultures
Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Catholique
de Lille

TEACHING EXPERIENCE__________________________________________

Emory University

FREN 101 Elementary French I

FREN 102 Elementary French II
FREN 201 Intermediate French
FREN 203 Advanced French
FREN 314 What is Interpretation? Histoires de camouflages
FREN 488 Topics in French - Postcolonial Childhood (TA)
FREN 488 Topics in French - Caribbean Literature and the Environment (TA)

North Carolina State University

FREN 101 Elementary French I (Sections of 75 and 82)

FREN 102 Elementary French II

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PUBLICATIONS ___________________________________________________

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS

2016 – Verstraet, Charly. “Trick or Treat: déconstruction d’une transgression chez Dany
Laferrière.” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones. Volume 31. Numéro 1. 132-147.

Interviews

2018 – Verstraet, Charly. “Poetics of Humanity, Politics of Migration: a conversation with

Patrick Chamoiseau.” Francosphères, vol 7, no 1. 121-137.

Translations

2019 – Translation of Patrick Chamoiseau’s foreword to Joseph Zobel’s Black Shack Alley
(Under contract with Penguin Classics)

2018 – Interview with Lilian Thuram for the documentary “Edouard Glissant, un soleil pour la
conscience.” Transl. by Charly Verstraet and Jeffrey Langdon Allen. Les périphériques vous
parlent. Documentary Film.

2018 – Chamoiseau, Patrick. “Beginnings.” Transl. by Charly Verstraet and Jeffrey Langdon
Allen. Small Axe Salon, issue 28. Online. (Forthcoming in October issue)

2018 – Glissant, Edouard and Patrick Chamoiseau. When the Walls Fall. Transl. by Charly
Verstraet and Jeffrey Langdon Allen. SITES: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies.
“Mapping the Post-Colonial,” volume 22, no 2. 259 – 270.

2017 – Chamoiseau, Patrick. « No Death Can» (For Derek Walcott). Transl. by Charly Verstraet
and Jeffrey Langdon Allen. Small Axe Salon, issue 25. Online.
Featured in the 2017 International Colloquium for 20 th and 21st Century French and Francophone
Studies program (Indiana Bloomington – Sense and the Senses).

LANGUAGES ___________________________________________________

French: Native
English: Near-native proficiency
Spanish: Intermediate
Haitian Creole: Intermediate
Polish: Beginner

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