Academic Background

Degrees and Theses:

• 2013 Harvard University: joint bachelor's degree in History and Literature (Postcolonial Studies) and African American Studies. Senior Thesis: Maryse Condé's Mobile Caribbean: Migration, Resurrection, and Agency in Segu, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, and Crossing the Mangrove 

• 2016; 2018 Columbia University: Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy. Master's Thesis: “Récupérer les voix obscurcies: une étude sur les sites matériels dans la production de la mémoire de l’esclavage dans Humus de Fabienne Kanor et Un dimanche au cachot de Patrick Chamoiseau”

• 2022 Columbia University: Ph.D. in the department of French and Romance Philology with certificates from both the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender. Dissertation: “Homo narrans: In pursuit of science's fictions of the 'human' in 18th-century speculative science and 20th- and 21st-century speculative literature”

Research Interests:

20th and 21st Century French Caribbean Literature; 18th Century Enlightenment Studies (specifically scientific philosophies of the human); Gender & Black Feminist Theory; Slavery in the Americas; (Cultural) Memory; Black Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies

Fellowships & Professional Engagements

Dr. Noni Carter was the 2021 - 2022 workshop leader for the Zip Code Memory Project and a contributing staff member of Kweli Journal.

During her doctoral tenure, Dr. Carter was the 2019 - 2022 rapporteur and convener for Columbia University’s Cultural Memory Seminar, the 2019 - 2020 grad assistant for the Center for the Study of Social Difference’s working group Transnational Black Feminisms, and the 2018 - 2019 graduate fellow for Columbia's Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She also worked as editorial assistant for Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (2019 - 2022) and for Columbia University Press (2019).

Prior to this in 2013, Dr. Carter became an associate with the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers. She also received the prestigious Michael C. Rockefeller fellowship from Harvard University with which she travelled to Martinique, ran poetry, literature, and African American history workshops in middle schools in Ducos, Schoelcher, and Fort-de-France, Martinique. She also spent time here training with various storytellers, particular through the program VIRGUL', while presenting her writing at various festivals and learning to work with medicinal plants.

Awards