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 University of South Florida. Her primary research and teaching interests include Intellectual History and Sociopolitical Movements of the African Diaspora, Haiti鈥檚 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: 鈥淩acial Politics in Haiti,鈥� Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford University Press; 鈥淭he N茅gritude Philosophy and the Movement,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies; 鈥淭he Pan-African Philosophy and Movement: The Practice of Multiculturalism,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism, Routledge; 鈥淣oirisme: Black Power and Black Pride,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Digital Library of the Caribbean; 鈥淒茅mences, Psychoses et Libert茅 Psychique dans Le Cri de l鈥檕iseau rouge,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Ecrits d鈥橦a茂ti: Perspectives sur la litt茅rature ha茂tienne contemporaine, Editions Karthala; 鈥淢asculinity in Hurston鈥檚 Texts,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston, Praeger Books; 鈥淗aiti鈥檚 Politico-Cultural Transcript: Moving toward National Rehabilitation,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Negritud: Afro-Latin American Studies; 鈥淧roduction et Reproduction: Le Symbolisme Historique du Corps de la Femme Antillaise et de sa Prog茅niture,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Caribbean Studies; 鈥淔ree Poetics, Nation Language in Caribbean Literature,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;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.