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Jean Jonassaint, Associate Professor
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
340 H B C
Tel: 315-443-5382
e-mail: jjonassa@syr.edu
PhD (Université de Montréal in 1990)

Before coming to Syracuse University, where he is currently teaching Francophone and Caribbean literature and cinema, Professor Jonassaint taught at Duke University and the Université du Québec à Montréal. He also lectured in European and American Universities such as Freie Universität Berlin, Southampton University (UK), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Carleton University, York University (Canada), Dartmouth College, Florida International University, Georgetown and Northwestern. He has published many articles in journals such as Callaloo, Francofonia, Sirena, Research in African Studies, Yale French Studies; four books of which the well known Le Pouvoir des mots, les maux du pouvoir: des romanciers hatiens de l’exil, 1986 and Des romans de tradition haïtienne: sur un récit tragique, 2002. He also edited or co-edited several publications on Francophone and American literature, among them "L'Amérique entre les langues," Études françaises (1992-1993) and "Special Issue on Frenkétienne," The Journal of Haitian Studies (2008).