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I am currently a Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow in Black France: Race and the Global Francophone Diaspora in the Department of French at the University of Virginia. I hold a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in French and Francophone Studies with a designated emphasis in African American and African Studies from the University of California, Davis. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish at the College at Brockport State University of New York with a minor in Psychology.
As an interdisciplinary scholar, my work bridges the fields of African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, Cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, and Creolistics (the study of Creole languages). My current work takes a transnational approach to studying Black popular culture in the francophone and the anglophone Caribbean at the intersections of language, identity, and power. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, I examine race, gender, sexuality, and the co-naturalization of race and Creole languages. At the core of my research is my passion for Creole languages in the Caribbean basin.
To all visitors to my website, I say, "Hello" and "Walk Good," a Jamaican Creole phrase meaning "Take care"/ "I wish you well," since we never say "Good-Bye."
Email me @ rvl5ew@virginia.edu