Dieulermesson Petit Frère

Dieulermesson Petit Frère serves as Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College while completing doctoral studies at Paris-Est University Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC). His academic profile bridges Haitian literary scholarship with critical examinations of gender, identity, and postcolonial dynamics, particularly through contemporary romantic fiction.

His research program centers on:

• Haitian literature (poetry and novel)
• Identities and racial formations
• Body politics and (homo)sexuality
• Violence and confinement narratives
• Digital migration and Haitian diasporas

Through comparative analysis of Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Yanick Lahens, and Kettly Mars, Petit Frère investigates how Haitian writers negotiate social constraints to articulate embodied experiences and sexual discourses beyond conventional prudishness or vulgarity. His work reveals literature as both political resistance and liberatory practice, where bodily representation becomes a vehicle for self-expression amid oppressive structures.

His scholarly recognition includes:

• EUR FRAPP Scholarship (2021)
• UPEC Doctoral Mobility Grant
• Fokal Foundation Scholarship
• IAIP Fellowship (2020-2021)

Petit Frère actively shapes academic discourse through editorial leadership at Legs et Littérature and Delos Journal, organization of major conferences like 'Restituting and Resituating Haiti', and membership in the Haitian Studies Association and Matrimoine research collective. His teaching spans French language instruction at the Haitian Institute, discourse analysis at Port-au-Prince University, and research methodology at Haiti's National School of Applied Geology.