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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYPhilosophic Dialogue.”She has helped develop and teach <strong>Gallatin</strong> travel courses in France andCuba. She received her doctorate in comparative literature and was a National Graduate Fellow.Her dissertation,“The Poet or the Journalist: Stéphane Mallarmé, John Ashbery and thepoëme critique,”won the Margaret C.Bryant DissertationAward.She has presented papers andchaired panels at the MLA, ACLA, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium andTwentieth-Century Literature conferences, among others. Her essays and reviews have appearedin French Forum,Nineteenth-Century French Studies and Poetry’s Poet:Essays on thePoetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics <strong>of</strong> Allen Grossman. Her poetry has appeared in Fulcrum: an annual<strong>of</strong> poetry and aesthetics and Conditions. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Pies received NYU’s DistinguishedTeaching Award in 2007. She is currently faculty chair <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Gallatin</strong> Writing Program.René Francisco PoitevinAssistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1997, California (Berkeley); M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2005, California (Davis)A sociologist by training, René Francisco Poitevin holds intellectual interests in the areas<strong>of</strong> critical social theory, Latino racial formations and urban political economy. He is also activelyinvolved with community groups organizing around popular education, housing advocacyand immigrant rights.He is currently assistant pr<strong>of</strong>essor at the <strong>Gallatin</strong> <strong>School</strong> at <strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong> <strong>University</strong>.Millery PolynéAssistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorB.A. 1996, Morehouse College; M.A. 1997, Ph.D. 2003, Michigan (Ann Arbor)Millery Polyné’s teaching and research interests examine the history <strong>of</strong> U.S.African Americanand Afro-Caribbean intellectual thought;coloniality in the Americas;human rights and dictatorship;race and sports.He has published articles in journals such as SmallAxe,Caribbean Studies, andthe Journal <strong>of</strong> Haitian Studies.The author <strong>of</strong> From Douglass to Duvalier:U.S.AfricanAmericans,Haitiand Pan Americanism, 1870-1964 (<strong>University</strong> Press <strong>of</strong> Florida,2010) Pr<strong>of</strong>.Polyné was the recipient<strong>of</strong> the National Endowment for the Humanities Schomburg Scholar-in-ResidenceFellowship (2012) and a <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Rochester Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2005).He is workingon a number <strong>of</strong> research projects—The Idea <strong>of</strong> Haiti (edited volume, <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong>Minnesota Press, Spring 2013); Born to be BredThatWay:Atlantic Slavery in the Shadow <strong>of</strong> GlobalSports; and“A Flame Superior to Lightning,A Sound Superior toThunder:Human Rights andCaribbean Exiles, 1950-1986.” Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Polyné’s <strong>Gallatin</strong> courses include “Consuming theCaribbean;”“Black IntellectualThought in theAtlanticWorld;”“Sports,Race,and Politics;”and“American Poetics.”<strong>New</strong><strong>York</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> 2012-2013 41

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