Grégory Pierrot is an associate professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. His works focus on the international cultural politics of blackness. He is the author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (Georgia UP, 2019), translator of Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli’s Free Jazz/Black Power (Mississippi UP, 2015), and co-editor with Paul Youngquist of Marcus Rainsford’s An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke UP 2012). He is also co-editor with Marlene L. Daut and Marion Rohrleitner of the forthcoming Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (UVA Press, 2020).