Cécile Accilien
Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor, French
Affiliate Professor, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
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Research Expertise
Afro-Caribbean
Film Studies and Cultural Studies
French and Francophone Studies
Haiti
Cécile Accilien is Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the School of Language, Literatures and Cultures. Her area of studies are Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures and Film & Media Studies. She is the co-editor (with Valerie Orlando) of Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives and the co-author (with Krishauna Hines Gaither) of The Antiracism World Language Classroom. She recently published a monograph Bay lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture with SUNY Press. She is the 2023 president of the Haitian Studies Association. She has written for Truthout and Latin American Commentator.