Jennifer Anne Boittin

John M. Merriman, my advisor, and Tyler Stovall, a mentor, left us just before I published my second (promotion) book. Our library had their books, but not yet Suzanne Roussi Césaire's. A Martinican intellectual, her censored dissident writings shaped my dissertation and first book. She remains unrecognized, like many whose histories I research. Her poetic refusals of injustice started me on a path, lit by John and Tyler, of listening to and sharing obscured voices in archives. Merci.