Eren Jaye
Education
Ph.D. in Francophone Studies, University of Virginia (in progress)
Master’s work at Middlebury College in France, in exchange with Université Paris Sorbonne
Diplôme Universitaire d'Études Françaises - Niveau 2, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, The Evergreen State College
Teaching Experience
L’Institut Catholique de Paris, Lectrice, 2019 – 2020
Lycée Camille Sée, English Language Assistantship, 2018 – 2019
Grants & Fellowships
Dumas Malone Fellowship, University of Virginia, 2024-2025
Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation Research Grant, UVA, 2023
Americas Center / Centro de las Américas Research Grant, University of Virginia, 2022
Public History Fellow at Monticello, Center for the Study of the Age of Jefferson, 2021
Battestin Fellowship, The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2021 (Project: Mapping Deliverance: Spatial Representations of Liberation in the 1858 - 1872 Journals of John Washington)
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in the Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures Research Cluster, University of Virginia, 2020 – 2026
Betty Jones Scholarship, Middlebury College, 2019
Areas of Research and Teaching Interest
French and Francophone Literature and Culture; Caribbean orality, poetics and literature; theories of geography and representation of place; theatre and performance; history and memory of the Atlantic world; environmental humanities; digital humanities; women and gender; folklife and folklore
Publications:
“Staging the Païdeuma: Nature and Insurrection in Aimé Césaire’s Une tempête.” In The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theatre and Performance, edited by Camilla Stevens and Jon Rossini. Palgrave, 2025.
“Adopted Earth: Édouard Glissant, Ana Mendieta, and the Poetics of Performing Exile.” Itinéraires TLC, 2025/3. Special issue: Corps et territoires : pratiques artistiques et sensibles du Sud Global." (Forthcoming, 2026)
“Derek Walcott, the Atlantic, and the Sea-bells Angelus.” Sargassso 2025-26, no. 1-2. (Forthcoming, 2026).
“The Rhythm of Night in Derek Walcott’s Dream on Monkey Mountain.” In Ecodramaturgies, edited by Heather J. Denyer. University of Iowa Press. (Forthcoming, 2027).
Conferences
“Derek Walcott, the Atlantic, and the Sea-bell’s Angelus.” Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies International Conference. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. May 5-7, 2026.