Professor Dr. Nick Nesbitt

Biography

Nick Nesbitt received his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (French) with a minor in Brazilian Portuguese from Harvard University. He previously taught at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and Miami University in Ohio during 2003-2004, where he was a Mellon Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for Humanities. Nesbitt is an established author with several notable works including "Caribbean Critique: Antillean Critical Theory and Toussaint Glissant" (Liverpool, 2013), "Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and Radical Enlightenment" (Virginia, 2008), and "Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature" (Virginia, 2003). He has also edited significant texts such as "Concept Crisis: Reading Capital" (Duke, 2017) and "Toussaint Louverture: The Haitian Revolution" (Verso, 2008). Noteworthy collaborations include co-editing "Revolutions Future: '68 Prague Spring" (2020) and works on Deleuze's philosophy and music. From 2019 to 2021, he received a GAČR grant to serve as a Senior Researcher at the Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, focusing on his latest book, "Price Slavery: Capitalism and the Revolution in the Caribbean," which explores themes of capitalism and slavery within the context of Caribbean studies.

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