Dr Rachel Douglas

Reader (French)

telephone: 0141 330 3660
email: Rachel.Douglas@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 310B, Modern Languages and Cultures, Hetherington Building

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1150-4506

Research interests

Rachel Douglas was appointed Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow in September 2012, after six years as Lecturer in Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Liverpool. She studied at the University of Oxford, Somerville College (BA Hons), the University of Edinburgh (MSc and PhD), and at the École normale supérieure in Paris.

A specialist on Haiti and the Caribbean, Dr Douglas is author of Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (2009), and is currently completing a monograph, provisionally entitled C.L.R. James’s ‘The Black Jacobins’: Rewriting the Haitian Revolution, funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Early Career Fellowship. She has published widely on Caribbean literature and film in French and English; on questions of rewriting, autotranslation and the literary in postcolonial contexts; on postcolonial visual cultures, and on Caribbean writers including Frankétienne, Dany Laferrière, C.L.R. James, Marie Chauvet, Kamau Brathwaite, Maryse Condé, Derek Walcott, and Édouard Glissant.

Dr Douglas recently hosted two extremely successful events in Glasgow and Edinburgh to mark the visit of Haiti's major writer and artist Frankétienne, 17–21 March 2014, which showcased his outstanding visual, verbal, dramatic and acoustic art.

She also hosted three prominent black history month events across two cities, Liverpool and Glasgow: The first performance since 1936 of precursor to C.L.R. James's classic history of the Haitian revolution The Black Jacobins, which started life as a play with Paul Robeson in the lead; 'The Black Jacobins Revisited: Rewriting History Conference', 27–28 October 2013, International Slavery Museum and the Bluecoat, Liverpool, and the 'Talking About Haiti' workshop, 29 October 2013, University of Glasgow.

Research Keywords:

Caribbean Literature
Caribbean Film
Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Postcolonial Visual Cultures
Comparative Literature
Haiti
Digital Humanities

Publications

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Number of items: 14.

2022

Douglas, R. (2022) Futures in the presents: decolonial visions of the Haitian Revolution. Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 24(7), pp. 1029-1052. (doi: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080574)

Douglas, R. (2022) Unsilencing the Haitian Revolution: C. L. R. James and The Black Jacobins. Atlantic Studies, 19(2), pp. 281-304. (doi: 10.1080/14788810.2020.1839283)

2021

Douglas, R. (2021) Entangled Caribbean rewriting, C.L.R. James, Aimé Césaire, and their books as postcolonial lieux de mémoire. Francosphères, 10(1), pp. 91-105. (doi: 10.3828/franc.2021.7)

Douglas, R. (2021) Archiving ten years of aftershocks in Haitian seismic notebooks. Journal of West Indian Literature, 29(1), pp. 36-52.

2019

Douglas, R. (2019) Making The Black Jacobins: C.L.R. James and the Drama of History. Series: The C.L.R. James archives series. Duke University Press.

2017

Douglas, R. (2017) Making drama of the Haitian Revolution from below: C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins Play. In: Forsdick, C. and Høgsbjerg, C. (eds.) The Black Jacobins Reader. Duke University Press, pp. 278-296. ISBN 9780822362012

2016

Douglas, R. (2016) Dramatic beginnings of The Black Jacobins. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, 13(1), 9.

Douglas, R. (2016) Writing the Haitian earthquake and the creation of Caribbean archives. Caribbean Quarterly, 62(3-4), pp. 388-405. (doi: 10.1080/00086495.2016.1260279)

2012

Douglas, R. (2012) Theory versus practice: on the postcolonial marginalization of Haitian literature. Small Axe, 16(3 39), pp. 188-198. (doi: 10.1215/07990537-1894177)

2011

Douglas, R. (2011) Innovation, subversion et renouvellement générique: la spirale et l’écriture quantique dans l'oeuvre de Frankétienne. In: Ménard, N. (ed.) Écrits d’Haïti: Perspectives sur la Littérature Haïtienne Contemporaine (1986–2006). Karthala: Paris, pp. 291-301. ISBN 9782811104962

Douglas, R. (2011) Rewriting America/Dany Laferrière’s rewriting. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 15(1), pp. 67-78. (doi: 10.1080/17409292.2011.535265)

2009

Douglas, R. (2009) Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress. Series: After the empire: the francophone world and postcolonial France. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9780739125656

2008

Douglas, R. (2008) Eating his words: an aesthetic of rewriting exemplified in Les Métamorphoses de l’oiseau schizop. Journal of Haitian Studies, 14(1), pp. 54-75.

Douglas, R. (2008) Haitian revolutions in literature: the case of linguistic and visual inventiveness in Frankétienne. Small Axe, 12(3), pp. 58-70.

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