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Elise Finielz is a Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, holding a PhD in French Literature. She has previously studied political science at Sciences Po Strasbourg and sociology at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, as well as French Francophone studies at Syracuse University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of sociology and literature, focusing on literary history, poetics, and textual analysis. She is particularly engaged with women writers from the Francophone Caribbean, examining their contributions to the literary field and the representation of Caribbean literature in the French postcolonial canon. Finielz’s project 'Writing Edge: Women Writers Francophone Caribbean Literary Field' explores the biographical trajectories of prominent women writers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Haiti, re-evaluating the theoretical model of the literary field developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in light of class, gender, and race hierarchies. She also investigates 'cannibal' poetry by Caribbean women poets utilizing French Creole expression. Additionally, Finielz translated essays by historians Lauren Derby and Richard Turits published in 'Terreurs de frontière: Le massacre des Haïtiens en République dominicaine en 1937', edited by Watson Denis, which earned her the Translation Prize 2023 from the Latin American Studies Association.
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