Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li)
@nathanhdize.bsky.social
Translator of Haitian and Antillean literature, teacher, researcher, and writer. Writing books about mourning in Haitian literature #SUNYPress & African American translators #LSUPress. Co-edits Global Black Writers in Translation @ Vanderbilt UP
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In an essay on WWB, Nathan H. Dize reimagines the genre of translator’s notes to recall how how life and translation have rhymed during his own career, often in wrenching ways. Read it at the link: https://buff.ly/3PtVWHt
If you're new to me, or to my work as a translator, I invite you into my heart with this piece. Forever grateful for the support & vision of @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing this <3
#Translation #Memoir
#Translation #Memoir
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Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises
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February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises
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Jean-Claude Carrié, Les membres de l'Haïti Littéraire dans la résidence de la romancière Marie Vieux-Chauvet à Port-au-Prince (1963).
De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur.
#marievieuxchauvet
De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur.
#marievieuxchauvet
July 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Jean-Claude Carrié, Les membres de l'Haïti Littéraire dans la résidence de la romancière Marie Vieux-Chauvet à Port-au-Prince (1963).
De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur.
#marievieuxchauvet
De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur.
#marievieuxchauvet
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Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/
À bientôt !
À bientôt !
April 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/
À bientôt !
À bientôt !
Special Issue: Journal of Haitian Studies - ‘Citizens of the World/Citoyens du monde/Sitwayen Mond Lan/Ciudadanos del Mundo’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas'
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#Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social
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#Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social
Journal of Haitian Studies - Special Issue: Call for Abstracts (Mar. 30, 2025)
Our issue, “‘Citizens of the World’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas,” engages with the demand by the Critical Refugee Studies Collective (2022) to place (re)situate refugee epis...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Special Issue: Journal of Haitian Studies - ‘Citizens of the World/Citoyens du monde/Sitwayen Mond Lan/Ciudadanos del Mundo’: Haitian Mobilities and Futurities across the Americas'
www.haitianstudies.org/2025/02/jour...
#Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social
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#Haiti @haitianstudies.bsky.social @haitisupportgroup.bsky.social
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Don't miss this upcoming event from our friends and collaborators at Puerto Rico Syllabus and Archivo Histórico de Vieques! They will showcase their new open educational resource, which received support from our OER in Caribbean Studies Program. Register here: tinyurl.com/viequessylla...
February 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Don't miss this upcoming event from our friends and collaborators at Puerto Rico Syllabus and Archivo Histórico de Vieques! They will showcase their new open educational resource, which received support from our OER in Caribbean Studies Program. Register here: tinyurl.com/viequessylla...
Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social
Educators, WWB Campus’s new free Caribbean lit unit is live! It features 21 works from all over the region with tons of resources and lesson ideas—and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. Learn more: https://buff.ly/417PF9Y
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social
If you've never read any books by #Frankétienne, you might start with the English translation of Dezafi; I wrote a review of it a while back with some ways of relating to the story. The artwork on the cover is also by the author
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@uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti
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@uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti
The Art of “Tonbe-Leve”: Frankétienne’s “Dézafi,” Translated from Haitian Creole by Asselin Charles
By Nathan Dize In a 1975 interview, journalist Jean Léopold Dominique praised Frankétienne’s publication of Dézafi, meaning “cockfight,” because it provided a polysemic analogy fo…
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February 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If you've never read any books by #Frankétienne, you might start with the English translation of Dezafi; I wrote a review of it a while back with some ways of relating to the story. The artwork on the cover is also by the author
readingintranslation.com/2019/05/24/t...
@uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti
readingintranslation.com/2019/05/24/t...
@uvapress.bsky.social #Haiti
I never met Frankétienne, but was touched by his writing. one of the most beautiful moments that I can think of is his conversation with his dear friend Jean Dominique, who dared Frank to write a novel in Haitian Creole... & he did! #Frankétienne
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Inter-Actualités Magazine: Jean L. Dominique ak Frankétienne sou woman «Dezafi» / Radio Haiti Archive / Duke Digital Repository
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February 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I never met Frankétienne, but was touched by his writing. one of the most beautiful moments that I can think of is his conversation with his dear friend Jean Dominique, who dared Frank to write a novel in Haitian Creole... & he did! #Frankétienne
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repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohait...
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(*A joke to distract from the 🤬💔)
I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹
🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/
so well it's a spell, hell/
makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop...
Not! One! 😆😭
I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹
🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/
so well it's a spell, hell/
makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop...
Not! One! 😆😭
February 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
(*A joke to distract from the 🤬💔)
I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹
🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/
so well it's a spell, hell/
makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop...
Not! One! 😆😭
I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹
🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/
so well it's a spell, hell/
makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop...
Not! One! 😆😭
I'm feeling blue today folks, sharing this blog post that I wrote in 2020, which I reread this morning and found some wisdom from my past self.
It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed.
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It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed.
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I Gave You All I Had, or The Pain of the Dollar
When I heard last week that I was turned down for my dream job, I recalled a book I read nearly a decade ago, I Gave You All I Had by Zoé Valdés, thinking that the title poignantly expressed exactl…
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February 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm feeling blue today folks, sharing this blog post that I wrote in 2020, which I reread this morning and found some wisdom from my past self.
It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed.
nathanhdize.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/i...
It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed.
nathanhdize.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/i...
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Opinion | This college president isn’t afraid of Donald Trump
Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.
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February 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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We’re hiring! WWB seeks a digital manager to advance our technological systems, manage our websites, and build readership through multimedia projects. Learn more about this full-time, remote position and apply at the link: https://buff.ly/41eN67j
February 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We’re hiring! WWB seeks a digital manager to advance our technological systems, manage our websites, and build readership through multimedia projects. Learn more about this full-time, remote position and apply at the link: https://buff.ly/41eN67j
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In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3
February 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: https://buff.ly/42OdRR3
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Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.
A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee
In the satirical "guide" below, cartoonist Mana Neyestani draws on his own experience as an Iranian refugee in Paris.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.
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Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚
Big WWB Campus news: our Caribbean lit unit is coming, and on 2/26 at 6 pm ET, you can join WWB Campus to celebrate its launch with a public reading! Ft. major voices in Caribbean writing and translation like Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro & Hoyt Rogers. Learn more and join the celebration: buff.ly/4gjqBC8
January 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚
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Very excited to have been included in this amazing volume, and excited to read the work of other contributors! #francophonestudies #oceania
February 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Very excited to have been included in this amazing volume, and excited to read the work of other contributors! #francophonestudies #oceania
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Atelier sur l’histoire chaotique du drapeau "RVN" adopté en 2023 pour représenter la Martinique lors des manifestations sportives et culturelles ; une exploration de la complexité de la question statutaire et des idéologies aux Antilles #fabriquedecoloniale #martinique
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La Martinique a son drapeau
YouTube video by La Fabrique Décoloniale
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February 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Atelier sur l’histoire chaotique du drapeau "RVN" adopté en 2023 pour représenter la Martinique lors des manifestations sportives et culturelles ; une exploration de la complexité de la question statutaire et des idéologies aux Antilles #fabriquedecoloniale #martinique
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@ubuffalohistory.bsky.social: Mark your calendars! Upcoming talk by the brilliant Dr. Deborah Gray White!
February 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
@ubuffalohistory.bsky.social: Mark your calendars! Upcoming talk by the brilliant Dr. Deborah Gray White!
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If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."
February 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."
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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.
Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉
For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z
#ShieldsPrize
Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉
For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z
#ShieldsPrize
February 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton.
Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉
For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z
#ShieldsPrize
Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉
For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z
#ShieldsPrize
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A beautiful essay written by our Smith colleague Paula Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, on Ida B. Wells literally taking up space that white women tried to deny her in the 1913 Suffrage march. Still up, for now, on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/articles/000...
February 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
A beautiful essay written by our Smith colleague Paula Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, on Ida B. Wells literally taking up space that white women tried to deny her in the 1913 Suffrage march. Still up, for now, on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/articles/000...