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Celeste-Marie Bernier

Associate Professor of American Literature, Faculty of Arts

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Expertise Summary

My main areas of expertise and those in which I would very much welcome postgraduates include topics related to African American history, literature and visual culture and Slavery Studies as well as children's literature and nineteenth century American literature.

Research Summary

The majority of my research is on African American literature, history, politics, and visual arts from the eighteenth century and down on through to the present day. I am particularly interested in… read more

Recent Publications

  • BERNIER, C-M, LAWSON, B., STAUFFER, J, TRODD, Z, GATES, JR H L and PIERCE, S, 2015. Picturing Frederick Douglass W. W. Norton and Co.. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2013. the houl intir batel feel were hell:” “Suffering”, “Sunset” and Aesthetic Experimentation in Horace Pippin’s World War I Manuscripts and Paintings. In: SWEENY, FIONNGHUALA AND KATE MARSH, ed., Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Vanguard Edinburgh University Press. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2013. “A Thought of Home:” Memorialising Slavery and Narrativising War in Horace Pippin’s Domestic Interiors and Exteriors. In: FAGG, JOHN AND MARK RAWLINSON, ed., Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday in Twentieth Century American Visual Culture Liverpool University Press. (In Press.)
  • 2013. Unseeing the Unspeakable:Visualizing Artistry, Authority and the Anti-Slave Narrative in Bill Traylor’s Drawings (1939-42) Slavery and Abolition. (In Press.)

Current Research

The majority of my research is on African American literature, history, politics, and visual arts from the eighteenth century and down on through to the present day. I am particularly interested in the ways in which African American authors and artists experiment with language and form to create works which address issues surrounding history, memory, slavery, identity, nationhood, labour and race. My recent publications include:

  • BERNIER, C-M, LAWSON, B., STAUFFER, J, TRODD, Z, GATES, JR H L and PIERCE, S, 2015. Picturing Frederick Douglass W. W. Norton and Co.. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2013. the houl intir batel feel were hell:” “Suffering”, “Sunset” and Aesthetic Experimentation in Horace Pippin’s World War I Manuscripts and Paintings. In: SWEENY, FIONNGHUALA AND KATE MARSH, ed., Afromodernisms: Paris, Harlem, Haiti and the Vanguard Edinburgh University Press. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2013. “A Thought of Home:” Memorialising Slavery and Narrativising War in Horace Pippin’s Domestic Interiors and Exteriors. In: FAGG, JOHN AND MARK RAWLINSON, ed., Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday in Twentieth Century American Visual Culture Liverpool University Press. (In Press.)
  • 2013. Unseeing the Unspeakable:Visualizing Artistry, Authority and the Anti-Slave Narrative in Bill Traylor’s Drawings (1939-42) Slavery and Abolition. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2012. “His Complete History?:” Revisioning, Recreating and Reimagining Multiple Lives in Frederick Douglass’s Life and Times (1881, 1892) Slavery and Abolition. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2012. A “Typical Negro” or a “Work of Art?” The “inner” via the “outer man” in Frederick Douglass’s Manuscripts and Daguerreotypes Slavery and Abolition. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2012. Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination University Press of Virginia. (In Press.)
  • 2012. “The Face of a Fugitive Slave:” Representing and Reimagining Frederick Douglass in Popular Illustrations, Fine Art Portraiture and Daguerreotypes. In: BRECHKTEN, MAGNUS, ed., Life Writing and Political Memoir Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. (In Press.)
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2011. A "Chattel" and a "Thing:" Remembering, Representing and Reimagining Hidden Histories of Slavery. In: FARQUHARSON, ALEX, ed., Histories of the Present Nottingham Contemporary.
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2010. “You can’t photograph everything:” The Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness in Joseph Rodriguez’s Still Here: Stories After Hurricane Katrina Journal of American Studies.
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2009. Remembering and Dismembering: Missing Bodies and Hidden Testimonies in Lost. In: PEARSON, ROBERTA, ed., I. B. Tauris. 241-60
  • BERNIER, C-M and NEWMAN, J, 2009. Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery Routledge.
  • CELESTE-MARIE BERNIER, 2009. Speculation and the Imagination:” History, Storytelling and the Body in Godfried Donkor’s Financial Times. In: Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery Routledge. 67-81
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2008. “Speculation and the Imagination:” History, Storytelling and the Body in Godfried Donkor’s Financial Times (2007) Slavery and Abolition. 29(2), 203-17
  • BERNIER, C-M AND NEWMAN, J, 2008. Introduction to Special Issue: Public Art, Artefacts and Atlantic Slavery 29(2), 135-50
  • BERNIER, C-M, 2008. African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present University of North Carolina Press.
  • BERNIER, C-M., 2007. ‘Iron Arguments’: Spectacle, rhetoric and the slave body in New England and British antislavery oratory European Journal of American Culture. 26(1), 57-78
  • BERNIER, C-M., 2007. Sometimes it is those outside our world who can best understand us:’ Sympathy and Race in Far From Heaven. In: MORRISON, J, ed., The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All that heaven allows London: Wallflower Press. 122-31
  • BERNIER, C.-M. and NEWMAN, J., 2005. The Bondswoman's Narrative: Text, Paratext, Intertext and Hypertext Journal of American Studies. VOL 39(NUMB 2), 147-166
  • BERNIER, C.-M., 2004. In: BEGHAIN, B., CHENETIER, M. and GABILLIET, J-P, eds., The Cultural Shuttle: The United States in/of Europe Amsterdam: VU University Press. 61-70
  • BERNIER, C-M., 2003. 'Emblems of Barbarism': Black Masculinity and Representations of Toussaint L'Ouverture in Frederick Douglass's Unpublished Manuscripts American Nineteenth Century History. 4(3), 97-120
  • BERNIER, C-M., 2002. 'Arms Like Polished Iron': The black slave body in narratives of a slave ship revolt.. In: WIEDEMANN, T. and GARDNER, J., eds., Representing the Body of the Slave London: Frank Cass. 91-106
  • BERNIER, C.-M., 2001. "Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity"; "`A Respectable Trade?': Bristol and Transatlantic Slavery"; and "Pero and Pinney Exhibit" Journal of American History. VOL 88(PART 3), 1006-1011

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