Departments and Programs

• African and African American Studies
• French and Italian

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~frandit/faculty/walker.html

Contact Information

Email: keith.l.walker@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2400
Office: 6087 Dartmouth Hall

Education

B.A. Morgan State College; M.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Princeton University

Areas of Expertise

19th- and 20th-century French literature; the intersection of French and Francophone literary cultures; the vision and legacy of the literary generation of the Martinican writer, theoretician and political figure, Aimé Césaire; poetry; colonial and postcolonial studies; Latin American and Caribbean Studies; cultural studies

Selected Works

• "Le Discours antillais" in The Columbia History of French Thought, L D Kritzman (ed.), (Dec. 2005), 185-187.
• "Pero Vaz De Caminha: Para Fijar La Mirada En el Corazon De Tinieblas Del Nuevo Mundo," Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, Aõo XXX, 60 (2nd semestre de 2004), 43-55.
• "Immigritude or the Pitfalls of Haitian Exilic Experience: The Cases of Gérard Étienne and Emile Ollivier," in Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec, S Ireland (ed.), (March 2004). 173-185.
• "Not to Exist without Interpretation of Meaning: The Countermodernist Challenge of Sylvia Wynter," Journal of West Indian Literature, 10:1-2 (November 2001) 39-66.
• Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot, Duke University Press (1999).

Current Projects

ABCésaire, an alphabetical guide to pronouncements by the poet, playwright, essayist and statesman on topics from Africa to the novelist Zobel, with an English translation; editing an English translation of the Haitian novel Le Négre crucifié by Gérard Étienne