Tyler Grand-Pre, Ph.D.

Office: AL-215
Email: [email protected]

Tyler Grand-Pre earned a Ph.D in English and comparative literature at Columbia University and a B.A. at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he double-majored in English as well as French and Francophone literatures. His research ranges across African diaspora studies, translation studies, ecocriticism, and architecture and urban planning. His current project engages the infrastructure of housing as an expressive medium through which writers, artists, and architects have spoken to socio-economic imbalance, structural racism, and neo-colonialism in the U.S. and Caribbean. Given his interest in translation, Grand-Pre has translated between French and English for Routledge as well as the NGO Women’s Global Education Project, and he is currently working on a translation of the book-length and bilingual (French and Creole) poem “Nostrom” (1982) by the Martinican poet Monchoachi. He has also published articles in Comparative Literature, New Labor Forum, as well as Small Axe Blog.