Contributors

Alexia Arthurs is a transplanted Jamaican who lived in New York for twelve years and now lives in Iowa City, where she is working toward an MFA in creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is also working on a collection of short stories.Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and artist from Trinidad. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Bim, Anthurium, sx salon, Tongues of the Ocean, and Room Magazine. She was awarded the Charlotte and Isidor Paeiwonsky Prize for First Time Publication by the Caribbean Writer in 2009 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2010. She is currently the poetry editor of Anansesem: The Caribbean Children's Ezine.Kamari Maxine Clarke is professor of anthropology and international and area studies at Yale University, with an affiliation in the Department of African American Studies. Her research explores issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, human rights and international law, and the interface between culture, power, and globalization and its relationship to race and modernity. She is the author of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities (2004) and Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009), and she is coeditor, with Deborah Thomas, of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006); with Mark Goodale, of Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post–Cold War Era (2010); and, with Rebecca Hardin, of Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge (2012).Jorge L. Giovannetti is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico. His most recent articles appeared in journals such as Cuban Studies, International Labor and Working-Class History, and Caribbean Studies, and in the edited books Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context (2005) and Cangoma Calling: Spirits and Rhythms of Freedom in Brazilian Jongo Slavery Songs (2013).Marlon Griffith (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a Trinidadian-born artist who lives and works in Nagoya, Japan. He started his career as a Carnival designer (a mas' man), a background that deeply shapes his work as a contemporary visual artist. He has been an artist-in-residence at Bag Factory/Fordsburg Artists Studios, Johannesburg (2004); Mino Paper Art Village in Japan (2005); Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica (2007); Popop Studios, Nassau, Bahamas (2010–11); and Art Omi, Ghent, New York (2011). He has been exhibited extensively, including in Toronto (South-South: Interruptions and Encounters, 2009); Miami (Global Caribbean, 2010); Washington DC (Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, Art Museum of the Americas, 2011); Urbana-Champaign (Krannert Art Museum, 2011), Gwangju (Seventh Gwanju Biennale, 2008), and Cape Town (CAPE09, 2009). In 2010, he was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and of a Commonwealth Award.Marlon James is a Jamaican photographer currently based in Trinidad. He attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, and, in 2010, he participated in the group exhibition Young Talent V at the National Gallery of Jamaica. He has since exhibited in Trinidad, Washington DC, London, and Canada, and his work has been published in the surveys Jamaican Art: Then and Now, edited by Petrine Archer-Straw and Kim Robinson (2011), and Pictures from Paradise, edited by Melanie Archer, Mariel Brown, and O'Neil Lawrence (2013).Kelly Baker Josephs is associate professor of English at York College, CUNY, specializing in world anglophone literature with an emphasis on Caribbean literature. Her forthcoming book, Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013), considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. She is managing editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform and manages the site The Caribbean Commons.Aaron Kamugisha is lecturer in cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. His current work is a study of coloniality, cultural citizenship, and freedom in the contemporary anglophone Caribbean as mediated through the social and political thought of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is the editor of forthcoming readers in the two series Caribbean Political Thought and Caribbean Cultural Thought, to be published by Ian Randle Publishers.Roshini Kempadoo is a London-based photographer, media artist, and lecturer. Her recent work includes contributions to the exhibition Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions (2011) and to the edited publications Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot” (2010) and Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies, and Futures in Media Studies (2013).Sharon Millar is a Trinidadian writer who lives in Port of Spain. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University, Cambridge. Her work was shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She was also a 2012 AWP Intro-Journal Award Fiction nominee.Beverley Mullings is associate professor of geography and gender studies at Queen's University, Canada. Her research is located within the field of feminist political economy and engages broad questions of social transformation, neoliberalism, and the politics of gender, race, and class in the Caribbean and its diaspora. She has published articles on neoliberal governmentality, social reproduction, diasporic transnationalism, and urban governance.Harvey Neptune teaches in the history department at Temple University. He is the author of a number of articles and the book Caliban and The Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation (2007), and is currently working on a project that reinterprets mid-twentieth-century US historiography from a New World perspective.Melanie J. Newton is associate professor of history and director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto. She is author of The Children of Africa in the Colonies: Free People of Color in Barbados in the Age of Emancipation (2008). She is editor of a forthcoming Small Axe issue focusing on Caribbean historiography and is researching a study of indigeneity in Caribbean history.Shalini Puri is associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she works on postcolonial theory and cultural studies of the global South with an emphasis on the Caribbean. She is the author of The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity (2004), which won the 2005 Gordon and Sybil Lewis award for best book in Caribbean studies, and is editor of Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean (2003) and The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics (2011). Her forthcoming book The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory studies the conflicting cultural memories of the Grenada Revolution as they surface in the arts, everyday life, landscape, and the diaspora. She is also working on a second, collaborative book, titled “Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities.”Mark Raymond is an architect based in Port of Spain. After completing his studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, he worked on projects in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, before returning to Trinidad to establish his own practice. He has been responsible for a wide range of architectural projects in Trinidad and throughout the Caribbean, on his own account and in collaboration with others.Dorothy C. Rowe is an art historian based at the University of Bristol, where she leads the Transnational Modernisms Research Cluster. She is the author of a number of books and articles in the fields of German modernism and contemporary diasporic art in Britain, including Representing Berlin: Sexuality and the City in Imperial and Weimar Germany (2003) and the forthcoming After Dada: Marta Hegemann and the Cologne Avant-Garde (2013). She is coeditor, with Abigail Harrison-Moore, of Architecture and Design in Europe and America 1750–2000 (2006), and, with Marsha Meskimmon, of Women, the Arts and Globalization (2013).David Scott teaches at Columbia University, where he is professor of anthropology. His new book, Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice, will be published by Duke University Press in 2013.Michelle Stephens is associate professor of English and of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of a number of essays on archipelagic American studies and visual art, and of the book Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (2005). Currently she is working on a book titled “Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer.”Lynn Sweeting is a Bahamian writer who was a prizewinning journalist before turning to poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Caribbean Writer, Tongues of the Ocean, Poui, Sisters of Caliban, Yinna, the Journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies, the Journal of the 2010 Carifesta Festival, and WomanSpeak. In 1997 she was a contributor to the Caribbean Writer's special anthology of Bahamian writing that was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She was awarded the 1998 Isidor Paiewonsky Poetry Prize from The Caribbean Writer and short-listed for the 2010 Small Axe Literary Prize.Deborah A. Thomas is professor of anthropology and Africana studies 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), and is coeditor, with Kamari Maxine Clarke, of Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (2006). She is also the director and producer of the documentary film Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (2011).D. Alissa Trotz is associate professor in women and gender studies and Caribbean studies at the University of Toronto. She is a member of Red Thread in Guyana and edits a weekly newspaper column, “In the Diaspora,” in Guyana's Stabroek News.

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