Dr. Sapp specializes in contemporary Haitian literature and is an affiliate of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program. His general teaching and research interests deal with Francophone literature and film. His recent publications focus on the expression of the past in contemporary Haitian novels. He is currently working on a research project that examines the figure of the ghost in contemporary Haitian novels as a means of engaging with Haitian history.
Education
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Courses Taught
FREN 492: Le 7e art: French Cinema from the Lumière brothers to Jean Dujardin FREN 491: Multicultural Voices and Diasporic Communities in Québécois Literature FREN 490: Revolution, Regimes, and Religion: Visions of Haiti in Text and Film FREN 453: Voices of French-Speaking North America FREN 334: Interpreting Francophone Literature and Film FREN 336 Cultural Panorama of the Francophone World
Selected Publications
“Inside Looking Out: On(line)tology and Virtual Bodies in Emmelie Prophète’s Les Villages de Dieu.” Études Francophones. Summer 2024 (forthcoming)
“At the Crossroads of History: Cohabitation of Past and Present in Kettly Mars’s L’Ange du patriarche” Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime, Edited by Odile Ferly and Tegan Zimmerman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp 251-269. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-32111-5_14
“Writing Against the Record: Emma’s Corporeal Archive” Journal of Haitian Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, 2019, pp. 239-258.
“Hearing Haunted Voices: Voicing the Past in Contemporary Haitian Fiction.” Women in French Studies, Special Issue, Volume 8, 2019, pp 225-235.
“American Disaster Stories: Unearthing Reality in Evelyne Trouillot’s Absences sans frontières.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, vol. 23, no. 1, 2019, 75-85.
“Transmitting the Legacy of Créolité in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Le livre d’Emma.” The French Review. vol. 92 no. 4, 2019, pp 28-39.
“The Talking Dead: Narrating the Past in Yanick Lahens’s Bain de lune.” Journal of Haitian Studies vol. 23, no. 1, 2017, pp. 119-134.
“Monuments and Shadows: Uncovering Haunted Histories in Myriam J. A. Chancy’s Spirit of Haiti” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 25, no. 1, 2017, pp. 45-59.
“An American Haunting: Living with Ghosts in Catherine Mavrikakis’s Le Ciel de Bay City” New Zealand Journal of French Studies, vol. 35, no. 2, 2014, pp.7-22.