Contributors

Leticia Alvarado is an assistant professor of American studies and ethnic studies in the Department of American Studies, Brown University. She is currently a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, where she is completing her book manuscript tentatively titled “Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production.” She has published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies and Latino Studies.Mario Alejandro Ariza was born in Santo Domingo but grew up between Miami and the Dominican Republic. He currently teaches Spanish and history at a suburban Boston private school. The recipient of a Breadloaf Writers Conference work-study scholarship, his poetry and prose appear or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, The Baffler, Bodega Magazine, Guernica, Lunaluna, the Rumpus, and Keep This Bag Away from Children.Jean-Ulrick Désert is a Berlin-based visual artist born in Haiti. His artworks vary in scale and medium. Well known for his “Negerhosen2000” and his poetic “Goddess” projects, his practice visualizes “conspicuous invisibility.” He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Art Center, and in galleries and public spaces in the United States and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Cooper Union and Columbia University. He has represented Haiti/Germany at the 10th Havana Biennale, and commissioned for BIAC, Martinique's first biennale.Michael Eldridge teaches literary and cultural studies at Humboldt State University. His essays have appeared in Diaspora, World Literatures Written in English, Transition, and Anthurium. With Ray Funk, he cocompiled and edited the Bear Family Records box set The Calypso Craze.Richard Fung is a Trinidadian-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. Films such as Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians (1984) and Dirty Laundry (1996) deal with the intersection of race and queer sexualities. Others like My Mother's Place (1990) and Sea in the Blood (2000) are auto-ethnographic explorations of gender, race, sexuality, and colonialism. Installation with F-16s, Apache Helicopters, and Rock Doves (2003) and Jehad in Motion (2007) are documentary video installations on Israel/Palestine, and Out of the Blue (1991) confronts racism and policing in Toronto. His work is widely exhibited and collected internationally and has been broadcast in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean. His publications include the much-anthologized essay “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn” and 13 Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics (2002), coauthored with Monika Kin Gagnon and thirteen artists and curators. He is a winner of, among others, the Bell Canada Award for lifetime achievement in video art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art. He is a professor in the faculty of art, OCAD University, Toronto.Nova Gordon-Bell is a Jamaican creative writer and head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Kingston, where she teaches media and communication. Her extensive professional experience in the public and private sector spans public information and education, journalism, and advertising. Her short stories and poetry appear in local and international publications.Maja Horn is an associate professor of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College, specializing in contemporary hispanophone Caribbean literature, visual and performance art, gender and sexuality, and political theory. She is the author of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014), and she is currently completing a second book on queer Dominican literature and visual and performance art.Nadia Huggins is a self-taught photographer from St. Vincent and the Grenadines whose primary focus is documentary and conceptual photography of and about the Caribbean. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Pictures from Paradise: A Survey of Contemporary Caribbean Photography and See Me Here: A Survey of Contemporary Self-Portraits from the Caribbean. She has exhibited work in a number of exhibitions, including Wrestling with the Image: Caribbean Interventions, in Washington, DC; Pictures from Paradise, at the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto; and In Another Place, and Here, at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC. She is the cofounder of ARC Magazine and works as a full-time freelance graphic designer.Alvan A. Ikoku is assistant professor of comparative literature and medicine at Stanford University. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Columbia University and has since worked at the intersection of literature and medicine. He specializes in African and African diasporic literatures, with particular attention to fiction, narrative ethics, and post-nineteenth-century movements in world literature and world health.Karen Jaime is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Latina/o Studies Program at Cornell University. She is a former Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellow and a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently working on her book, “Queering Poetry in Loisaida: Language, History, and Performance at the Nuyorican Poets Café.”Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist, and Reader in Media at the University of East London. Her projects are factual and fictional reimaginings comprising photographs, audio, and screen-based art installations; they combine sound, animations, and interactive use of objects to introduce characters that once may have existed, evoking hidden and untold narratives.Charl Landvreugd was born in Paramaribo in 1971 and works in Rotterdam as a visual artist, writer, and curator, researching the idea of an Afro-European aesthetic, with special focus on the subjectivity of the artwork as a generator for new knowledge. His work has been shown internationally, including at the Deutsche Bank New York, Marowijne Art Parc (SU), Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Dak'Art Biennial, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), and TENT. His written work has appeared in ARC Magazine, Small Axe, and Het beste van De Unie in Debat. A selection of his curatorial work includes Agnosia (CBK Zuid Oost), Am I Black Enough (De Unie, SMBA), and ROUTES (Schouwburg Rotterdam). After studying at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Columbia University, he is now pursuing a PhD at the Royal College of Art, London.Jorge Pineda (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) was born in 1961 in the Dominican Republic where he lives and works. He has presented solo shows at Hunter College, New York City, in 2012; at the Insitituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain, in 2013; and at UNESCO, Paris, in 2014. He exhibited at the 52nd Venice Biennial in 2009 and also at the 55th Venice Biennial with the Collective QUINTAPATA in 2013. In 2014 he attended the Davidoff Art Residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, in Berlin, and was part of the collective show celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Biennial de La Habana.Shivanee N. Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet and fiction writer whose creative writing has been published in tongues of the ocean, Draconian Switch, and the Caribbean Review of Books. An alumna of the 2010 Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Caribbean Writers, she was selected as one of three New Talent Showcase writers at the 2013 NGC Bocas Literature Festival.Damian Femi Rene teaches literature at Ciceron Secondary School in St. Lucia. He is an avid reader and writer of both poetry and prose and also has great interest in theater and film.James Robertson is a Londoner who has taught in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, since 1995. He has written on British, Jamaican, and West Indian history, including the book Gone Is the Ancient Glory: Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1534–2000 (2005) as well as several essays on the writing of history, botany, and creole architecture in colonial Jamaica.Sandra Ruiz is an assistant professor of Latina/Latino studies and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was also the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2012 to 2013. She received her PhD in performance studies at New York University and previously taught there, as well as at Pratt Institute and Wesleyan University. She has published in Women and Performance and is currently working on a book manuscript, “Timing Ricanness: Bodily Endurance and Anti-colonial Performance.”Michelle Stephens is an associate professor in English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962 (2005) and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (2014). She is also currently coediting, with Brian Russell Roberts, a collection of essays titled “Archipelagic American Studies: Decontinentalizing the Study of American Culture.”Leon Wainwright is Kindler Chair in Global Contemporary Art at Colgate University, and Reader in Art History at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) and the forthcoming book “Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art,” and he leads a major internationally funded project on art, cultural policy, and geography in the Dutch-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean and their global diasporas.

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