“Arguing around Toussaint”: the Black Jacobin in an Age of Revolutions

Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He is currently Arts and Humanities Research Council theme leadership fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’. He has published on travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial and world literature, and the memorialization of slavery. The Black Jacobins Reader (co-edited with Christian Høgsbjerg) recently appeared with Duke University Press, and Toussaint Louverture: Black Jacobin in an Age of Revolutions (co-authored with Christian Høgsbjerg) is due to be published by Pluto later this year. Among his current research, he is co-editing a volume on Transnational French Studies for Liverpool University Press and also leads a project on dark tourism and penal heritage. He is Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board at Liverpool University Press and a member of the Academy of Europe.