Posted inArticles Issue 15 2026
About Raphael Hoermann
Dr Raphael Hoermann holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Black Research (IBAR) at the University of Lancashire and co-director of the Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile. He is the author of the study 'Writing the Revolution: German and English Radical Literature, 1819-1849'/9', (LIT, 2011). His expertise lies in Radicalism, Haitian Revolutionary and Black Atlantic Studies. He has published several articles and book chapters in these fields, including on the Haitian Gothic, the Black Jacobins trope, the horror trope of the zombie and the Haitian Revolution, and on the Black Atlantic nineteenth-century radical Robert Wedderburn and Mary Prince. His second monograph, 'The Politics of Terror and Haitian Revolution: Narratives of Demonisation and Liberation', is forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press.