Contributors

Edna Acosta-Belén is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies, and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at the University at Albany, SUNY. She has published nine books, including (with C. E. Santiago) the award-winning Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary Portrait (2006). She received her PhD from Columbia University and has been a visiting professor at Cornell University and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton and Yale Universities.Jossianna Arroyo is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of African and African Diaspora at the University of Texas, Austin, where she specializes in Caribbean literatures and cultures, Afro-diaspora studies, racial critical theory, and queer studies. She is the author of Travestismos culturales: Literatura y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil (2003); Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry (2013); and several essays on the work of Julia de Burgos and Manuel Ramos Otero. She is currently completing a new project on race and body in contemporary media and new media titled “Caribbean Mediascapes.”Kamau Brathwaite is a distinguished poet, historian, and essayist who taught for years at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently at New York University. He is the author most recently of the collections Strange Fruit (2016) and The Lazarus Poems (2017). In 1994, he received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was awarded the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.Charles V. Carnegie is a professor of anthropology at Bates College, Lewiston, and has been associated with the Small Axe Project for almost two decades. He is the author of Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002) and is presently working on a collection of essays, “Kingston Space, Kingston Time,” that explores aspects of the city's contemporary cultural politics. Portions of the manuscript have been presented at St. Andrews University, Scotland, at the annual meetings of the West Indian Literature conference, and at the American Anthropological Association.Ricardo Edwards (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a self-taught artist and digital illustrator. He was born in Jamaica in 1994 and raised in rural St. Ann. Upon leaving high school he realized that for reasons having to do with resources there was little possibility of attending an arts college, therefore he decided to pursue his own path. He is now a full-time visual artist.Curdella Forbes is a fiction writer and a professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University. Her essays have appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Small Axe. She is the author of Songs of Silence (2002, 2010); Flying with Icarus (2003); From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming, and the Cultural Performance of Gender (2005); A Permanent Freedom (2008); and Ghosts (2012).Donette Francis, a founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, is the director of the American Studies Program and an associate professor of English at the University of Miami. Her book Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (2010) mobilizes the term antiromance to rethink feminist and Caribbean emancipatory politics. Her current book projects include “Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City,” a socio-cultural history of black arts in Miami, and “The Novel 1960s: Form and Sensibilities in Caribbean Literary Culture.”Obika Gray has taught at the University of Michigan, Flint; Vassar College; the University of the West Indies, Mona, where he was a professorial fellow; and the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where he was professor in comparative politics. His publications include Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960–1972 (1991) and Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica (2004).Sheri-Marie Harrison is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she researches and teaches Caribbean, global anglophone, and African diaspora literature and cultural studies. She is the author of Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Postcolonial Jamaican Literature (2014) and is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled “After the Beginning Ends: Contemporary Fiction and Iconoclasm.”Rebeca L. Hey-Colón is an assistant professor of Spanish at Colby College, Waterville, Maine, where she teaches Caribbean and Latinx studies. Her current book project, “Rippling Borders in Latina Literature,” explores the relationship between water, borders, bodies, and spirituality in Chicana and Caribbean Latina authors. She is currently the Center for Mexican American Studies Carlos E. Castañeda Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin (2017–18).Clinton Hutton lectures in political philosophy and culture at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has published extensively on the Haitian Revolution, the Morant Bay uprising, the culture and philosophy of enslaved Africans, Rastafari, Revival, Caribbean art and aesthetics, and Jamaican popular music. His latest book is Colour for Colour, Skin for Skin: Marching with the Ancestral Spirits into War Oh at Morant Bay (2015). He is also a noted painter and photographer.Vanessa Pérez-Rosario is an associate professor of Puerto Rican and Latino studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the editor of Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (2012) and the author of Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (2014). She is currently editing a bilingual anthology titled “I Am My Own Path: The Writings of Julia de Burgos.”David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity (2017).Faith Smith teaches at Brandeis University. She is completing a cultural history of the first decade and a half of the twentieth century, showing how the “Spanish American” and “Boer” Wars were filtered through the fiction and photography of Trinidad and Jamaica, and a study of violence and intimacy in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction.Maziki Thame teaches in political science at Clark Atlanta University. Her research interests and publications focus on the place of race, class, violence, radicalism, identity, and gender in the political life of the postcolonial Caribbean. Her work questions how race shapes experiences of citizenship, how liberation is pursued in the Caribbean modern, and how marginalized groups, such as women and blacks, factor in the politics of the region.Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004) and Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011). She also directed the documentary film Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (2011) and is currently collaborating on a multimedia project called “Four Days in May,” which addresses the 2010 events in West Kingston.L. Camille van der Marel is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation, “Bookkeeping: Discourses of Debt in Caribbean-Canadian Literature,” demonstrates how diasporic texts' conflations of material and ethical obligation unsteady the “transnational turn” in contemporary humanities scholarship. She also researches ecocritical approaches to Canadian literature and has recently published on settler-colonial representations of northern Canada in Ariel.

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