Good writers are good readers. As a teacher, Rose Réjouis encourages her students to explore literary history broadly while committing themselves to close readings. Lately, she and her students have been extending their close readings into the realm of audio-visual storytelling and mixed media.

Prominent critical reviews of my work:

• Cover of The New York Times Book Review essay by Leonard Michaels of the translation with of Patrick Chamoiseau's novel, Texaco.

• The New Yorker review by John Updike of the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's novel, Texaco. 

•  The New York Times review by Holland Cotter of "Négritude," an art exhibit I curated at Exit art.  In this experimental multi-media and multi-disciplinary show  (supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities), I presented the work of Vladimir Cybil Charlier and Wura-Natasha Ogunji, as evidence of the history of "dark play" embodied in Aimé Césaire's practice of Négritude.

•  The Guardian's Homage ("On How Fiction can make it new" by Garth Risk Hallberg) to the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's novel, Texaco.

•  New York Times Review article by Richard Bernstein on the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's novel, Solibo Magnificent.

•  The New York Book Times review by Caryl Phillips of the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent

•  New York Review of Books review by Derek Walcott of the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco

•  The New Republic review by Caryl Philips of the translation of Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco.

Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University.

B.A., Amherst College, French and English.

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Ecole Normale Supérieure (dissertation research, semester as externe while doing PhD at Princeton)

Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Etudiante Etrangère - one semester, while a B.A. student at Amherst)

Institut d’Etudes de Sciences Politiques (Etudiante Etrangère - one semester, while a B.A. student at Amherst)

•  Essays in N+1:  "Circle of Visibility," "In Thrall," (2021), "Hidden Fortress," Ogresse" (2019), "You can't read,"(2018), "Letter to Freud" (2018) 

•"Wild Solidarity," in Untranslatability Goes Global edited by Jill Levine and Katie Jan (forthcoming from Routledge Press)

• "Tasks Without Solutions:  Why Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams Matters to Translation Culture," Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Number 45 (November 2014).   

• "Dark Horse Poetics:  Lévi-Strauss, Benitez-Rojo, and Caribbean Epistemology, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Volume 18, Number 43 (March 2014).

•  “Négritude as Dark Play,” an essay for the catalogue of the art exhibit, “Négritude,” I curated at Exit Art (New York, May 20-July 25, 2009).

• “Object Lessons:  Metaphors of Literary Agency in Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Task of the Translator’ and Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique,”  French Literature Series, 2009.  

• “Sharp Minds, Raw Hearts,” preface to Love, Anger, Madness by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, translated by Réjouis/Vinokur (New York: Modern Library, 2009).  

I also write regularly for the French journal, Esprit.  Here is a list of my most recent essays in French.

•. 'Black Face et Encre Invisibile," Février 2020. 

• La Forteresse Cachée, ESPRIT, June 2018

•Lire Poe dans L'Obscurité, ESPRIT, March 2018.  

• Ecrire nos pensées sauvages  ESPRIT, March 2018.  

• Mea Res Agitur [An Open Letter to Freud].  ESPRIT, January 2018. 

•  Le Mauvais Lycée  ESPRIT, January 2018.

• "Tu ne sais pas lire" ESPRIT, March/April 2017:  

BOOK •  Veillées pour les mots [Wakes for Words] : Aimé Césaire, Patrick Chamoiseau et Maryse Condé (Paris: Karthala, 2005).  TRANSLATIONS

• Love, Anger, Madness , three novellas by Marie Vieux-Chauvet (New York: Modern Library, August 2009). 

•  Texaco , novel by Patrick Chamoiseau (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997), (London: Granta, 1998), (New York: Vintage Books, 1998). Reviewed by John Updike (New Yorker), Leonard Michaels (cover of The New York Times Book Review), Derek Walcott (NYRB), Caryl Phillips (New Republic); reviews in NYT, LA Times, TLS, London Review, Chicago Tribune, etc.

•  Solibo Magnificent, novel by Patrick Chamoiseau (New York: Pantheon Books, 1997), (New York: Anchor Books, 1999), (London: Granta, 2000). Reviewed by Richard Bernstein (NYT), Caryl Phillips (NYTBR), Salon, African American Review, etc.