Colin Dayan | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 74–75) Atlanta |
| Other names | Joan Dayan |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, academic, scholar, researcher, essayist |
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| Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
| Website | colindayan |
Colin Dayan FAAAS, also known as Joan Dayan, is Professor Emerita, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University,[1] where she teaches American studies, comparative literature, and the religious and legal history of the Americas.
She has written extensively on prison law and torture, Caribbean culture and literary history, as well as on Haitian poetics, Edgar Allan Poe, and the history of slavery. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004[2] and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.[3]