Dr. Ferly received a B.A. from the University of Bristol, UK, an M.A. from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, and a Ph.D. from the University of Bristol. She has been at Clark since 2004 and is affiliated with several programs in the
Center for Gender, Race, and Area Studies (CGRAS), including Africana Studies, Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies.

Dr. Ferly’s research interests are Caribbean literatures and cultures from a comparative perspective, including the anglophone, francophone, and hispanophone regions. Her book A Poetics of Relation: Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium (2012) examines contemporary women’s writing from across the Caribbean and its diaspora, focusing on the issues of race and gender in connection with history, language, the Caribbean literary tradition and the diaspora. Her pan-Caribbean volume Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime (2023, edited with Tegan Zimmerman) uniquely examines Caribbean women writers as creative writers, theorists, and activits. Her current research focus is on cultural politics in the French Caribbean. She teaches interdisciplinary courses on Francophone literatures and cultures, including cinema, and on French popular culture, as well as comparative literature courses on Caribbean women writers and on Afrofuturism.