Tyler Grand Pre

Tyler Grand Pre

Research Interests

Biography

Tyler Grand Pre is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and ICLS affiliate at Columbia. His dissertation, tentatively entitled “The Infrastructure of Allegory: Figurations of Housing in African Diasporic Literature and Culture,” seeks to illuminate a non-developmentalist framework through which the different experiences of housing and infrastructural inequality within black communities in the US and Caribbean can be discussed and compared across the categories of public and private. Before earning his MA and MPhil in his current department at Columbia University, Tyler received a BA from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he double majored in English as well as French and francophone studies. He is interested in translation studies and has translated between French and English for Routledge as well as the NGO Women’s Global Education Project. Tyler is currently co-chairing the black studies colloquium and works as an editorial assistant for the Caribbean studies journal Small Axe. His latest publication, “Inflecting the French,” is featured in the December, 2022 issue of Comparative Literature by Duke University Press.