Anny-Dominique Curtius

Anny-Dominique Curtius is Professor of Francophone Studies at the University of Iowa. Her interdisciplinary work interweaves cultural theory, cinematic, visual, and performing arts of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and Sub-Saharan Africa to examine post/de/colonial museum practices; restitution and repatriation of African belongings; tidalectical and racial ecologies; climate change and the archeology of silence and colonial slavery; archives and counter-narratives; the mutation of the iconography of slavery in the public space.

Her publications include:

 Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings with Jacqueline Couti, (Liverpool UP, 2025).

Francophonies of the Early Modern / Francophonies de la première modernité, with Downing Thomas, a Special issue of L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. 64, No. 4, (Winter 2024).

Suzanne Césaire. Archéologie littéraire et artistique d’une mémoire empêchée (2020), the first book that explores Suzanne Césaire’s seminal work and the entangled modes of silencing, recognition, and misrepresentation of this Martinican cultural theorist.

Symbioses d’une mémoire: Manifestations religieuses et littératures de la Caraïbe (2006) that examines creolized religiosity, slavery and Black Atlantic Christianity in Early Modern narratives, contemporary ethnographic texts, and literary and cultural productions of the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.

Her single-authored book in progress analyzes the entangled rememory of slavery in new museum practices, artistic productions, performances and memorials in the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, France, the UK, and Sub-Saharan Africa

She is the recipient of the Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award and the International Engagement Teaching Award and her teaching broadly explores the rich literary and artistic expressions of the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, Sub-Saharan and the Pacific.