Educated at University of the West Indies, Michael Dash is currently a Professor of French and of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His areas of research are Francophone and Caribbean Literature, as well as literary theory. Some of his published works include Culture and Customs of Haiti, The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context, Haiti and the United States and Literature and Ideology in Haiti: 1915-1961. Professor Dash has received a number of awards such as the U.W.I. Award for Excellence in Research; the Senior Fulbright Hays Award, and the Senior Fulbright Research Award. In the past, he worked closely with Édouard Glissant and also translated some of Glissant’s work from French into English.
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