Emily Eyestone

Emily Eyestone is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of French Studies. She is finishing her PhD at Princeton University. Her dissertation explores the role of geo-climatic disaster in shaping the cultural identity, literary expression, and postcolonial political trajectories of islands in the Francophone Caribbean. Her research examines how Afro-Caribbean writers like Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, and Suzanne Césaire formulate a geopoetics of hazard, in which environmental catastrophes are not just figured as neutral accidents of nature, but as the result of social and ecological vulnerabilities stemming from plantation slavery. At Princeton and Wesleyan University, she has taught courses on French and Francophone cinema, postcolonial theory, translation, and the history of slavery in the New World. At Wake Forest, she is excited to offer a variety of intermediate language classes, as well as a course on translation in the spring.

FRH 153

FRH 212

FRH 321: Introduction to Translation

Eyestone CV