Françoise Vergès is the director of the scientific and cultural program at La Maison des Civilisations et de l’Unité Réunionnaise, a living museum due to open in 2010 on Réunion Island, and a lecturer at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths (University of London). She has written extensively on memories of slavery in contemporary postcolonial France; on Frantz Fanon and colonial psychiatry; on contemporary art and race; and on processes of creolization. Her recent publications include La Mémoire enchaînée: questions sur l’esclavage (for which she was awarded the 2006 Françoise Seligmann Foundation Prize Against Racism); Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai (interviews conducted by Vergès with Aimé Césaire); Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage. Vergès has worked as a consultant on a number of projects, including Une Agora Réunionnaise, a documentary video installation, and Isaac Julien’s film Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask.
