Seanna Sumalee Oakley

Associate Professor

Degrees and Institutions Granting the Degree

• PhD, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BA, English and French, UCLA

Professional Areas of Specialty

• Francophone and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean literature
• Comparative African Diasporic and European Poetics
• Genre studies

Courses Regularly Taught

• Afro-Caribbean literature
• Postcolonial Literary Theory
• Twentieth Century Fiction and Poetry

Publications

Book

Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011.

Scholarly Essays

“Voyance au pays maudit: Allegorical Masks in Frankétienne’s Fleurs d’insomnie,” Journal of Haitian Studies 14.1(2008): 37-53.

“Commonplaces: Rhetorical Figures of Difference in Heidegger and Glissant,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 41.1 (2008): 1-21.

“Le Masque Blessé / The Afflicted Mask: Romantic Selves, Vodounist Selves in Frankétienne’s Fleurs d’insomnie,” Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives 4.1 (2007): 67-85.

“A Way to Cross Over: Caribbean Literary Criticism,” Literature Compass 1 (2004): 1-15.

Reviews

The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Experience by Lee M. Jenkins, South Atlantic Review 72.1 (2007): 252-55.

The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean by Doris Garraway, Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 10.3 (2007): 107ff.

The Arrival of Brighteye by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 8.3 (2005): 117-120.