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Theories of law and justice Social justice and world literature Representations of slavery The history of Haiti in Western culture Caribbean and Latin American Studies Black history, literature, art, and culture

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Kaisary is the 2023–25 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor in Cultural Mediations. He is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the wo...

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Bio/Research

Kaisary is the 2023–25 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor in Cultural Mediations. He is a legal, literary, and cultural comparativist and his work brings questions of resistance and struggle to bear on legal and cultural forms, theorizes and critically appraises alternative modes of being in the world, and addresses the intersections of law, politics, and culture. He is the author of The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints and his next book, From Havana to Hollywood: Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary, is forthcoming. During his tenure as Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor, Kaisary will be leading a law and literature teaching and research project that, evoking the work of Benita Parry on postcolonial theory, is titled, “Directions and Dead Ends in the ‘Law and Literature’ Movement.” This project has as its goal the development of a materialist and worldly approach to ‘Law and Literature.’

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