Geneviève Fabre

Geneviève Fabre is professor emerita at the University of Paris Diderot (Paris VII) where she served as Director of the African-American and Diasporas Studies Program. She is the author of Parcours Identitaires (1983) and Le Theatre Noir aux Etats-Unis (1982), and editor of African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination (2004) and Feasts and Celebrations in North American Ethnic Communities (1995). She has also co-edited several collections of essays, including Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance (2001), Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance (2000), Celebrating Ethnicity and the Nation (2002), and History and Memory in African-American Culture (1994). In addition, she has received prestigious fellowhips from Harvard University’s Du Bois Institute, the National Humanities Center, The Bogliasco Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation.