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Andrew Daily

Andrew Daily

Associate Professor of Modern French and Global History; Director of Graduate Studies

Phone
901.678.2868 / 901.207.8933
Email
amdaily@memphis.edu
Fax
901.678.2720
Office
105 Mitchell
Office Hours
Tuesday, 10am-1pm.

Education

Rutgers University - Ph.D., 2011

 

Fields of Interest:

Modern France and Europe, Global history, Atlantic and Caribbean history, Intellectual and cultural history, historical theory

Recent Courses:

  • World History since 1500
  • Modern France
  • History of the Caribbean
  • French Revolution
  • European Historiography
  • Global Historiography
  • Philosophy and Theory of History

 

Recent Publications:

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  • “Language and National Consciousness in the Post-Colonial Caribbean.” Ying-Ying Tan and Pritipuspa Mishra, eds., Language, Nations, and Multilingualism: Questioning the Herderian Ideal (Routledge, 2020)
  • "'It is Too Early... or Too Late:' Frantz Fanon's Legacy in the French Caribbean," Karib: The Nordic Journal of Caribbean Studies 2 (2015).

 

 

Recent Invited Talks:

  • “The Same Story: Transnational Collaborative Authorship and Epic Theatre in Édouard Glissant’s Histoire de Nègre.” COLLAB Symposium: Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context, KU Leuven, May 2024.
  • “Histories of the Present in Daniel Boukman’s Les Négriers and Med Hondo’s West Indies.” Western Society for French History/Society for French Historical Studies. Detroit, March 2023.
  • “The Persistence of Empire and the Time of Decolonization (Guadeloupe-Martinique).” École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, May 2022.
  • Plenary: “History, Theatre and the Subject in Histoire de Nègre.” Society for French Historical Studies, Indianapolis, April 2019.

 

Current Research Projects:

  • Radical Sympathies: Anticolonial Activism in Postwar France and Caribbean: My forthcoming monograph draws on research conducted in France and the Caribbean to examine anticolonial activists and intellectuals in both metropolitan France and in the French Caribbean departments (Guadeloupe, Guyane, and Martinique) in the postwar period. It traces how Antillean activists grappled with the historical and cultural legacy of French colonialization, and how they sought to forge new “networks of sympathy” with both their global contemporaries.

 

  • Édouard Glissant: An Intellectual Life: The Martinican philosopher and writer Édouard Glissant has emerged as an important intellectual and political touchstone in present debates about decolonization, identity, globalization, poetics, and history, among others. My current project constitutes his first English-language intellectual biography. Grounded in the context of his political and intellectual activism, it explicates and contextualizes Glissant’s concepts - such as histoire, relation, tout-monde, right to opacity, disaffiliation, and planetarity – to equip students and scholars in a range of disciplines – including but not limited to literary studies, Black studies, anthropology, political theory, geography, and philosophy – as they engage with and apply his ideas to our contemporary situation.

 

  • The Pre-Socratics in Postwar France: In this project I combine intellectual history with classical reception by examining the influence of the Pre-Socratic philosophers on postwar French thought. Frustrations with academic philosophy as well as the influence of Martin Heidegger led French thinkers to turn to the non-dogmatic philosophy of figures such as Parmenides, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus, and the Sophists Protagoras and Gorgias to pose new questions of being, language, politics, and the self. By returning to the roots, they sought to chart a pathway out of Western philosophy’s aporias and contradictions.