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A. Véronique Charles is a researcher, writer, and interdisciplinary scholar in literary studies. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University where she is also a lecturer in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. Charles holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory with a certificate in Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and obtained an MPhil in Comparative Literature from Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis/Vincennes. Charles is at work on a book manuscript that examines Atlantic slavery and its abolition from a continental African perspective alongside fugitive slave narratives from colonial Senegal in addition to pioneering works that theorize this very perspective written by Black authors.