Martin Munro

Martin Munro is Winthrop-King Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University. He previously worked in Scotland, Ireland, and Trinidad. His publications include Shaping and Reshaping the Caribbean: The Work of Aimé Césaire and René Depestre (W.H. Maney and Sons, 2000), Exile and Post–1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferrière, Danticat (Liverpool, 2007), Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas (California, 2010), Writing on the Fault Line: Haitian Literature and the Earthquake of 2010 (Liverpool, 2014) and Tropical Apocalypse: Haiti and the Caribbean End Times (Virginia, 2015). In 2019, he published a translation of Michaël Ferrier’s Mémoires d’outre mer, and in 2022 and 2023 translations of Ferrier’s Scrabble and François, portrait d’un absent. He has also translated Édouard Glissant’s Une nouvelle région du monde and Laura Alcoba’s Par la forêt. In 2020-21 he was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. His latest monographs are Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Revolt, and Race (Liverpool, 2022) and The Music of the Future: Sound and Vision in the Caribbean (Oxford, 2024).