Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is the John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire. Her writings have been translated into French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. She is the recipient of a Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center. She currently serves as co-editor of the Global Black Writers in Translation series at Vanderbilt University Press.

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