Paul B. Miller

Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University. He works on literatures, languages, music and cultures of the Francophone, Hispanic and Anglophone Caribbean. His book, Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination, University of Virginia Press, 2010 discusses the impact of the Enlightenment in the Caribbean in the work of six modern Caribbean authors. His current book project Windward Passages: Haitian and Cuban Writers in Dialogue, also coming out from UVA Press, examines key moments of cultural exchange and dialogue between Cuban and Haitian writers from the Haitian to the Cuban Revolution. He has another book project entitled “The Dialectics of Tradition and Assimilation in Latin American and Caribbean Jewish Writing”.