Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

Régine Michelle Jean-Charles is a Black feminist literary scholar and cultural critic specializing in francophone studies. She is the director of Africana studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and professor of Africana studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University. The focus of her scholarship and teaching on world literatures in French is on Black France, Sub Saharan Africa, Haiti, and the Haitian Diaspora. She is the author of Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (Ohio State Universiry Press, 2014), Martin Luther King and The Trumpet of Conscience Today (Orbis Books, 2021), and Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (University of Virginia Press, 2022).