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# Deborah Jenson CV

Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
deborah.jenson@duke.edu
205 Language Center, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
112 Language Center, Box 90257, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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## Selected Presentations & Appearances

Neuroscience and the Poetics of the Haitian Declaration of Independence · December 9, 2013 Lecture Harvard University, 18th Century Studies Group, Mahindra Humanities Center
Revolutionary Practices · December 5, 2013 Lecture Brandeis Sawyer Seminar on Rethinking the Age of Revolution
L'aire de Firmin · November 11, 2013 Lecture Journées d'ethnologie, Institut d'Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Adrian and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory · October 23, 2013 Lecture 19th Century French Studies Colloquium
Les Cicatrices de Dessalines · April 1, 2013 Lecture Atelier Groupe Histoire de l'Atlantique Française, Montreal, CA
Neuroscience and the Poetics of the Haitian Declaration of Independence · December 9, 2013 Lecture Harvard University, 18th Century Studies Group, Mahindra Humanities Center
Revolutionary Practices · December 5, 2013 Lecture Brandeis Sawyer Seminar on Rethinking the Age of Revolution
L'aire de Firmin · November 11, 2013 Lecture Journées d'ethnologie, Institut d'Ethnologie, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Adrian and Marcel Proust: Fathering Neurasthenic Memory · October 23, 2013 Lecture 19th Century French Studies Colloquium
Les Cicatrices de Dessalines · April 1, 2013 Lecture Atelier Groupe Histoire de l'Atlantique Française, Montreal, CA
Plenary, "African Roots and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean" · March 19, 2013 Lecture World View's Annual Latin America and North Carolina Seminar
Flaubert and Epilepsy and "Haiti to New Orleans," Katherine P. Gore Chair Lectures · March 1, 2013 Lecture Tulane University
Les Cicatrices de Dessalines · October 17, 2012 Lecture Institute for African Studies and Research (l'IERAH), Université d'état d'Haïti
Flaubert's Brain: Neurohumanities (Plenary Lecture for the Society for French Studies) · July 5, 2012 Lecture University of Exeter
Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the African Character of the Haitian Revolution (Charles Bonnier Annual Lecture) · May 6, 2012 Lecture University of Liverpool
Neuroscience and the Humanities · November 12, 2011 Lecture NEH/Goethe Institute Satellite Panel for the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC
Digital Humanities and 19th Century French Studies: Mapping the History of Cholera · October 27, 2011 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies, Philadelphia, PA
Immigration to the Republic of Letters · September 30, 2011 Lecture Columbia University Seminar on Colonialism and Orientalism
The Duke FHI Haiti Humanities Lab Cholera Project · April 1, 2011 Lecture Duke University
Barbara Johnson’s Last Gift: Toward a New Engagement with Historical African Personhood · January 9, 2011 Lecture Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA
Feminine Literary Persons and Things · January 8, 2011 Lecture Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA
Haiti’s Independence Denied: The French in Santo Domingo, 1804 · November 13, 2010 Lecture Haitian Studies Association, Brown University, Providence, RI
Toward a Theory of Fat: Balzac, Capitalism, and Body Consciousness · October 1, 2010 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Courtesan Poetry, the Urban Libertine Milieu, and the Haitian Revolution · September 1, 2010 Lecture Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Imitating Universality · May 1, 2010 Lecture Haiti and the Politics of the Universal,” Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Your Experience is in My Body: The Biological Precedence of Representation in the Mirror Neuron Paradigm · May 1, 2010 Lecture Institute of Advanced Study, University Symposium on Body and Knowing, University of Minnesota
Specialized Communities: Mirror Neurons and the Biosocial Politics of Resemblance · May 1, 2010 Lecture Keynote, University of Minnesota Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies, Minneapolis, MN
The Writing of Disaster in Haiti · May 1, 2010 Lecture East Carolina University
Francophone World Literature (littérature-monde) and Cosmopolitanism: Citizen of the World without the Citizen? · November 1, 2009 Lecture University of Chicago
Mirror Neurons and Mimesis · October 1, 2009 Lecture Humanities/Science Symposium on “What Is Human?” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Second Nature: The Biosocial Construction of Likeness · September 1, 2009 Lecture Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Mirror Neurons and Mimesis Symposium
Le Monde Mandé et un Postcolonialisme cosmopolite et de longue durée · June 1, 2009 Lecture Bamako, Mali
Haitian Romanticism and Romantic Modernity · May 1, 2009 Lecture North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Under the Jurisdiction of La Sirène: Anba dlò in Turner, Dessalines, and Haitian Painting · April 1, 2009 Lecture
American Reactions to the Haitian Independence in the Era of Slavery · February 1, 2009 Lecture University of Wisconsin-Madison, Center for the Humanities, "Coping with the Past" Symposium
A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text · December 1, 2008 Lecture Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA
A Reconsideration of the Haitian Declaration of Independence as Text · November 1, 2008 Lecture Haitian Studies Association Conference, Montrouis
Napoleonic Kidnappings, from Toussaint Louverture to the Son of Henry Christophe · October 1, 2008 Lecture Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium, Nashville, Tennessee

## Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Bass Connections Team Leader - Integration of Technology and Storytelling to Create a Visual Art Exhibit on Women's Health · 2019 - 2020 Projects & Field Work North Carolina Bass Connections Open
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Trauma and Timing · August 2013 - May 2014 Projects & Field Work United States of America

## Service to the Profession

Director : 3rd Annual Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Selection Committee, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference · December 17, 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Orgaanizer : 'Old' Worlds, 'New' Worlds, Future Worlds Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer : Haiti Lab Workshop, "Unveiling the Colonial System": The Baron de Vastey and the Henry Christophe Regime · December 2011 Event/Organization Administration
PFIRST Workshop, "Discourses of Trauma in Haiti" (Co-Organizer) · November 2011 Event/Organization Administration
Director : 3rd Annual Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2013 Event/Organization Administration Duke University
Selection Committee, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference · December 17, 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Orgaanizer : 'Old' Worlds, 'New' Worlds, Future Worlds Romance Studies Undergraduate Research Conference · March 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer : Haiti Lab Workshop, "Unveiling the Colonial System": The Baron de Vastey and the Henry Christophe Regime · December 2011 Event/Organization Administration
PFIRST Workshop, "Discourses of Trauma in Haiti" (Co-Organizer) · November 2011 Event/Organization Administration
Selection Committee, NIneteenth-Century French Studies Conference · 2011 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer (with Michaeline Crichlow (Duke, Sociology and AAAS, Patricia Northover (UWI, SALISES), Matthew Smith (UWI, History, Faculty of the Human : States of Freedom, Freedom of States · June 1, 2010 Event/Organization Administration University of West Indies-Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
Editorial Consultant Team, Norton Anthology of World Literature · December 17, 2009 Editorial Activities

## Service to Duke

Bass Connections Theme Leader (Brain & Society) · 2013 - 2016 Curriculum Innovations
Bass Connections Faculty Advisory Council (Program) · 2012 - 2016 Committee Service