Faculty
Kersuze Simeon-Jones
Associate Professor
Contact
Home Campus: Tampa
Office: FAO 271
Telephone: (813) 974-6163
Email
education
Ph.D., University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
M.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Bio
Dr. Kersuze Simeon-Jones is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the ±«Óătv. Her primary research and teaching interests include Intellectual History and Sociopolitical Movements of the African Diaspora, Haiti’s National History, Women History within the African/Black Diaspora.
She is the author of The Intellectual Roots of Contemporary Black Thought: Nascent Political Philosophies, Routledge; Black Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice, Routledge; and Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. She has also published numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedic entries. Her work include: “Racial Politics in Haiti,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press; “The NĂ©gritude Philosophy and the Movement,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies; “The Pan-African Philosophy and Movement: The Practice of Multiculturalism,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism, Routledge; “Noirisme: Black Power and Black Pride,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Digital Library of the Caribbean; “DĂ©mences, Psychoses et LibertĂ© Psychique dans Le Cri de l’oiseau rouge,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Ecrits d’HaĂŻti: Perspectives sur la littĂ©rature haĂŻtienne contemporaine, Editions Karthala; “Masculinity in Hurston’s Texts,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, Praeger Books; “Haiti’s Politico-Cultural Transcript: Moving toward National Rehabilitation,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Negritud: Afro-Latin American Studies; “Production et Reproduction: Le Symbolisme Historique du Corps de la Femme Antillaise et de sa ProgĂ©niture,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Journal of Caribbean Studies; “Free Poetics, Nation Language in Caribbean Literature,”&˛Ô˛ú˛ő±č;Journal of Caribbean Studies.
Dr. Simeon-Jones holds an Interdisciplinary Doctoral degree in: History and Literature of the Black Diaspora, from the University of Miami, Florida. She completed a Master of Arts Degree in French and Francophone Literature at Rutgers University. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in French Literature, with a Minor in Spanish Language and Literature, also from Rutgers.