Doris L. Garraway

Doris L. Garraway is an Associate Professor of French at Northwestern University, where she earned her Ph.D. from Duke University. She serves as Director of Graduate Studies in French and focuses on Francophone Caribbean literature, the Haitian Revolution, and intersections of gender, slavery, and postcolonial studies.

• Education: Ph.D., Duke University

Her research spans early modern French cultures, theopolitical sovereignty, and performance studies, with a forthcoming manuscript on print and performance in the Haitian Kingdom of Henry Christophe. Garraway has held leadership roles, including chairing the Department of French and Italian (2019–2022).

Scientific Awards & Fellowships:

• Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship
• Kaplan Center for the Humanities Fellowship (Northwestern University)
• National Humanities Center Fellowship (declined)
• John Carter Brown Library Fellowship (declined)
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Fellowship (declined)

Garraway has directed dissertations on topics like gender in Haitian literature, trauma in 20th-century Haitian literature, and memory in North African literature. She has lectured internationally, including at the University of Uppsala and the University of Pennsylvania.