Jennifer Boum Make

Research Expert - United States - Washington DC

Biography

Jennifer Boum Make is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature in French at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She works on the relationship between literature and ethics of care , in particular in the representations of the French colonial past and its survivals in the contemporary French-speaking Caribbean. She has published articles on the contemporary persistence of colonial practices or a colonial unconscious, particularly in the ways of considering the relationship to the living, as well as gender and power relations.