Christina Kullberg is associate professor of French literatures at Uppsala University, specialized in contemporary Caribbean, and in Early Modern travelogues. She has published extensively on Caribbean literature, including two monographs – The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment(University of Virginia Press, 2013) and Figurations de l’étranger: Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François de Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, which is scheduled for publication with Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne – and numerous articles in journals such as Callaloo, Small Axe and Research in African Literatures. In her current project, generously funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, she interrogates inclusion of other voices in French 17th century travelers, in order to understand the mode of early modern exchanges in the context of the Caribbean. She is a member of the steering committee of the research program “Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures” www.worldlit.se
