Sibylle Fischer

Associate Professor
Ph.D., 1995 Columbia University (Comparative Literature/Spanish and Portuguese) M.A., 1987 Freie Universität Berlin (Latin American Studies, Philosophy, German Literature)

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Areas of Research/Interest: Caribbean and Latin American literatures (Spanish, Portuguese, French); culture and politics in the nineteenth century; literature and dictatorship; literature and philosophy; cultural, aesthetic, and political theory; the Black Atlantic; the Haitian Revolution.

Select Publications: Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Forthcoming Duke University Press 2004)
Cirilo Villaverde, Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill. Trans. Helen Lane. Introduction and notes. Oxford University Press (forthcoming Oxford UP).