Donette Francis

Donette Francis is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences, Department of English. She serves as Director for the Center for Global Black Studies and has previously directed the American Studies Program.

Research Interests:

• Investigates place, aesthetics, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora
• Focuses on Caribbean transnational literary culture (1940-1970)
• Examines minor histories in Black arts practice in Miami (1970s-present)
• Explores postcolonial critique through Caribbean literature

Publications Trends: Her work spans Caribbean literary analysis, diaspora studies, and cultural criticism, with a focus on Jamaican historiography, postcolonial identity formation, and the intellectual history of Anglophone Caribbean transnational literary culture. She critiques grand narratives through concepts like "interim time" and "radical skepticisms."

Active Projects:

• "Illegibilities: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form"
• "Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City"