Assistant Professor

A Black feminist theorist and creative writer, Beaudelaine Pierre focuses her research on creole, diasporic spaces emerging across the Americas and the Caribbean through the political struggles of Black/Queer people. Her work explores Black feminist intellectual thought, examining the ways in which activists and scholars in the African diaspora redefine radical Black decolonial practices through their critiques of coloniality and anti-Blackness. Her book project Tout Moun Se Moun: Experiments in Beings sits with the imaginaire of Haitians living under Temporary Protected Status (or TPS) as they reconstitute familiar and unfamiliar modes of living in order to withstand and transform the continual onslaught of violence and loss that have characterized their existence both in their native Haiti and in the United States. Pierre curates, annually, with the International Writing Program (IWP) in Iowa City, the Rasanbleman Literè Kreyòl / World Creole Literature Gathering.