Annette Joseph-Gabriel Appointed John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor
Annette Joseph-Gabriel, John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
The department of Romance Studies is delighted to announce that Annette Joseph-Gabriel has been appointed the John Spencer Bassett Associate Professor of Romance Studies.
In a statement to colleagues, department Chair Martin Eisner said: “This distinction recognizes Annette’s powerful and field-defining scholarship, which she crafts into works of remarkable narrative and theoretical sophistication.”
With a dual appointment as Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Joseph-Gabriel conducts research and teaches courses on race, gender, and citizenship in France, the Caribbean, and Africa. Her areas of expertise include Black women’s writings, anticolonial activism and slavery in the French Atlantic. Her work centers marginalized voices and shows how their contributions can offer us new ways to think about contemporary cultural and political questions.
Her collaborative project, Mapping Marronage, is an interactive visualization of the trans-Atlantic networks of intellectual, creative and political exchange created by enslaved people in the 18th and 19th century.