Timothy Lomeli, PhD.
Timothy Lomeli is an Assistant Professor of French at Grinnell College.
His doctoral dissertation examined the intersections of Vodou with race, class, gender, and sexuality in the novels of Kettly Mars in order to demonstrate how practices of Vodou can destabilize seemingly concrete conceptions of identity.
In 2024-25, Timothy Lomeli was a Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation & Teaching Fellow at Kenyon College. At Kenyon, he taught a course in Spring 2025 titled “Vodou in Popular Culture” where students examine texts (films, novels, poetry, anthropological monographs, and paintings) that depict Vodou from both inside and outside of Haiti. Ultimately, the class aimed to reconsider how we think about Haitian Vodou.
He has most recently published “Pathologizing and Controlling Haitian Bodies: The U.S. Border through Discrimination, Incarceration, and Deportation.” in the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies with Carine Schermann & Vincent Joos.
He completed a translation of Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, soleil noir (Ady, Black Sun) with Tiffane Levick which was published published with Liverpool University Press on April 28, 2025.
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