Catherine Fox

Catherine Fox is a doctoral candidate for the combined degree in African American Studies and Comparative Literature. Her dissertation, entitled Christophe’s Ghost: the Making and Unmaking of Tragedy in Post-Revolutionary Haiti, probes the expanse of tragedy as defined by three literary depictions of Henry Christophe by Derek Walcott, Alejo Carpentier, and Aimé Césaire.

She specializes in the literary and visual traditions of the Caribbean. She is also interested in transnational, migrational, and modernist literatures of the twentieth century, the Latin American dictator novel, francophone African literature, and pan-Caribbean theater. In her time at Yale, she has taught French language, the Black Atlantic visual tradition, New York Mambo, and literature and film of the Holocaust. She has also taught as a Wurtele Gallery Teacher at the Yale University Art Gallery.