Marlene L. Daut

Marlene L. Daut has a B.A. in English and French from Loyola Marymount University, and she earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2009. She is currently the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Black Studies and French at Yale University. Before joining the faculty at Yale, Daut taught at the University of Virginia, Claremont Graduate University, and the University of Miami. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers (NYPL). She has also written for The New York Times, The Nation, Essence, Harper's Bazaar, The Conversation, Public Books, and the LA Review of Books.