Yvette Christiansë

Yvette Christiansë is the author of Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics (Fordham Press, 2013); Unconfessed (Other Press, 2007), a 2006 PEN/Hemingway Award finalist; Castaway (Duke University Press, 1999); and Imprendehora (Kwela Press, 2009). 

In addition to being the Claire Tow Professor of Africana Studies and English Literature at Barnard College, she and Rosalind Morris are co-librettists and coproducers of Southern Crossings: A Chamber Opera, composed by Zaid Jabri. She is also the associate producer of the documentary We Are Zama Zama, produced and directed by Morris.