Grégory Pierrot

Steering Committee for the Center for Black European Studies at the Atlantic

Bio

Grégory Pierrot is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford where he teaches American and African American literature. His research bears on the cultural networks of the Black Atlantic. He is the author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA, 2019), co-editor with Marlene Daut and Marion Rohrleitner of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA, 2021), translator of Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's Free Jazz/Black Power (Mississippi, 2015).

He co-edited with Paul Youngquist a scholarly edition of Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke 2013), and recently prefaced two short collections of nineteenth-century short stories in French about the Haitian revolution for L'Harmattan editions and co-translated with Jean-Baptiste Naudy The Color of Forgetting, a novel by Merle Collins, and Brent H. Edwards' The Practice of Diaspora at Éditions Rot-Bo-Krik. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Le Temps d'une nation noire, about the fiction of the Black Power Era.