Adriana Umaña Hossman, PhD

Researcher, Teacher, Writer

Caribbean Studies

2013 “Un Arc-en-ciel pour l’Occident chrétien: un rituel vodou pour la guérison d’une conscience postcoloniale”
Karay de l’inter/transculturel : heurts et bonheurs
CIEF – Conseil International d’Études Francophones
Grande Baie, Île Maurice, June 9-16, 2013

2013 “Zombies and René Depestre’s Caribbean Creolization”
The Changing Landscape of American Multiethnic Literature through Historical Crises
 The 27th MELUS:  Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mar. 14-17, 2013

 

2012 “Crossings Propelled by Death”
Crossings Frictions Fusions- Traversées Frictions Fusions
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Long Beach, California, March 29-31, 2012

2011   “Death and Afterlife in Maryse Condé and René Depestre”
Mapping Death Year-End Symposium
The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar 2010-2011
Houston, Texas, April 23, 2011

2011   “Death and Afterlife: Nomadic Wanderings in French Caribbean Literature”
People Make Places
10th Congress of SIEF – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal, April 2011