Kaiama L. Glover

Kaiama L. Glover
Alma materColumbia University (Ph.D.)
Harvard University (B.A.)
OccupationsProfessor, Yale University
Notable workA Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (2021)
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2011)

Kaiama L. Glover is a translator and scholar of Black Studies, French and Literary Studies. She is a professor at Yale University in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Alongside her academic work, she is known for her translations of Frankétienne, Marie Chauvet, and René Depestre. She was formerly the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies at Barnard College, where she also served as Faculty Director for the Barnard Digital Humanities Center