Sibylle Fischer, Ph.D. Columbia University, is Associate Professor of Spanish, Portuguese and Comparative Literature at New York University. Before NYU, she taught in the Literature Program and the Department of Romance Studies at Duke. Her Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (Duke University Press, 2004) has received the Frantz Fanon Award (Caribbean Philosophical Association), the Singer Kovacs Award (Modern Language Association), and the Bryce Wood Award (Latin American Studies Association). She is also the editor of a new translation of Cirilo Villaverde‘s Cecilia Valdés (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is currently working on a new book tentatively entitled "The Political Subject", which studies the formation of collective identities and the articulations of political agency in the Caribbean.
