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Marlene Daut is a Professor at Yale University specializing in Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Her work centers on the Haitian Revolution, Black Atlantic humanism, and racial politics in global media.
Her research spans the literary and intellectual history of the Caribbean, with a focus on Haiti. She has authored several influential books including Tropics of Haiti (2015), Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism (2017), Awakening the Ashes (2023), and the forthcoming The First and Last King of Haiti (2025). As a public intellectual, her commentary appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Nation.
Daut actively bridges academic and public discourse through digital scholarship, co-creating H-Net Commons' H-Haiti platform and curating specialized resources like lagazetteroyale.com (early Haitian print culture) and haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com (bibliography of Haitian Revolution fictions). She serves as series editor for New World Studies at UVA Press and co-edits Public Books' Global Black History and Theory section.
