Professor Latortue

Régine Latortue is a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from Yale University.  She is a Professor in the Department of Africana Studies of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and served as Chairperson of that department for fifteen years.  Currently, she is the President of the College Language Association.  She is also the Principal Investigator of HABETAC, the Haitian Language Bilingual Education Technical Assistance Center at Brooklyn College serving the State of New York.

Professor Latortue has received the Caribbean American Heritage Month Award from the Borough President of Brooklyn, as well as awards from The Haitian American Alliance and from the Organization of Haitian Americans United for Progress (HAUP).  She has been a recipient of the Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence Fellowship, and the National Science Council Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, as well as a post-doctoral grant from the American Council of Learned Societies, in addition to several Distinguished Faculty Awards from CUNY and the Research Foundation of New York.  Her publications include a co-authored bilingual edition of Les Cenelles: A Collection of Poems by Creole Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century, and numerous articles on Haitian studies, francophone literature, and women writers of the African Diaspora.  Recent publications include “Le Corps du roi: Christophe, le tragique architecte,” "Francophone Caribbean Women Writers and the Diasporic Quest for Identity," "Une Nouvelle vision de l'Indigénisme: Fond-des-Nègres de Marie Chauvet," "Haitian Women Underground: Revising Literary Traditions and Societies,” and, finally, “Ré-imaginer trois siècles: L’héritage de Toussaint Louverture et d’Aimé Césaire, et le bicentenaire de la révolution haïtienne.” 

Contact Prof. Latortue at regine@brooklyn.cuny.edu