“A Few Writing Project Updates”

Please allow me to brag a little bit about a few recent achievements!!!
I’ve been quite productive this summer. So far, I’m satisfied with the progress I made:

1. I submitted my review of a manuscript for a University press; the forthcoming book discusses works of fiction about the Haitian Revolution. This is the second phase of the peer review process. The author made all the corrections that I suggested in the first round. I’m pleased with the outcome. Can’t wait to see the publication of this fantastic text in early spring 2027 or late fall 2026.
2. I am done writing the book chapter for the forthcoming book Bertin Louis, Lewis Clorméus, and I are coediting on Haitian Protestantism for the University Press of Florida. I wrote on the interesting topic constructing a “Christian vision” of Haiti in nineteenth-century Haitian poetry. I still need to work on the corrections suggested by my peers.
3. I just submitted an academic article to a journal on how twentieth-century Haitian writers, mostly Haitian poets, constructed what I phrase a “Vodouist poetic narrative.” They also developed a poetic theology of Vodou in Haitian literature.
4. I submitted a book proposal to a university press on the afterlives of Dessalines, particularly how different generations, diverse communities, and various traditions—from the early nineteenth-century to the present—across Haiti, the Caribbean, the United States, France, and Western Europe remembered, characterized, represented, mythologized, and contested Jean-Jacques Dessalines—the founder of the Haitian nation. This is not a historical biography; rather, it’s a book about the global memory of Dessalines after his death.
5. I submitted the book review I was asked to do for the Journal of Haitian Studies.
6. I submitted today an opinion piece to a Haitian journal on the recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court granting the Trump administration the legal right to revoke the temporary status of some 350,000 TPS (Haitian) holders.
7. Finally, I will get done with my summer class next Thursday: July 2nd.

I need a vacation now. Don’t I deserve to take one, good people? 😊