Contributors

Kamau Brathwaite is a distinguished historian, poet, and literary-cultural critic. After a long career teaching in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, and subsequently the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University, he has recently retired from full-time teaching. A founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement and a founding editor of Savacou, he is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Among his most recent books are Ancestors (2001), MR (Magical Realism) (2002), Words Need Love Too (2004), Born to Slow Horses (2005), and Elegguas (2010).Alejandra Bronfman is an associate professor in the Department of History at University of British Columbia. Previously she was an assistant professor at the University of Florida and Yale University. She is the author of Measures of Equality: Race, Social Science, and Citizenship in the Caribbean (2004) and On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989 (2007), and is coeditor of Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (2012). Her current research aims to record the unwritten histories of radio and related sonic technologies in the Caribbean.Lauren Derby is an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo (2009), which won the Bolton-Johnson Prize (CLAH/AHA) and co-won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis award (CSA). She is coeditor of Activating the Past: History and Memory in the Black Atlantic World (2010) and The Dominican Republic Reader (2014).Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and author of, among other books, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004) and Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012).Anne Eller is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at Yale University. She formerly taught at the University of Connecticut. Her forthcoming book, “América Should Belong to Itself: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Long Fight for a Free Caribbean,” explores the Spanish reoccupation of the Dominican Republic and the popular anticolonial fight that followed.Pablo F. Gómez is an assistant professor in the Department of Medical History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work examines the history of medicine, science, and corporeality in the early modern Caribbean, African, and Iberian Atlantic worlds.Julian Henriques is a reader at, and joint head of, the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is convener of the MA scriptwriting program and director of the Topology Research Unit. Previously he ran the film and television department at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies, Mona. His credits as a writer and director include the 1998 feature film Babymother, a reggae musical, and We the Ragamuffin. His sound sculptures include Knots & Donuts, Tate Modern (2011), and he is coauthor of Changing the Subject (1998) and author of Sonic Bodies (2011).Maja Horn is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College. From 2005 to 2006 she was a research associate at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO) in Santo Domingo. Her articles on Caribbean literature, visual arts, and performance have appeared in the journals GLQ, Latino Studies, and Latin American Literary Review, among others. Her book Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature was published in 2014.Ruel Johnson is winner of the 2002 Guyana Prize for Literature for Best First Book of Fiction (Ariadne and Other Stories) and the 2008 GT&T CARIFESTA X Publication Award (Fictions, Volume One). His unpublished collection of poetry, “The Enormous Night,” was shortlisted for the 2002 Guyana Prize. He was scriptwriter for the miniseries Tides of Life, produced by Women against Violence Everywhere (WAVE) with support from the United Nations Development Programme, and a scriptwriter for the satirical review, Link Show (2009).Vladimir Lucien is a writer from St. Lucia. His work has been published in several journals, including the Caribbean Review of Books, Wasafiri, the PN Review, BIM magazine, and Caribbean Beat, as well as in the anthology Beyond Sangre Grande (2011). He is also the screenwriter of the documentary The Merikins, which premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2012.Nalini Mohabir is a postdoctoral researcher with the City Institute, York University, Toronto. She is interested in the chaos of diaspora, and its fragments and fallouts, within a house of memory.Lavar Munroe (whose work appears on our covers) is a Bahamian artist based in Washington DC. In 2010 he represented the Bahamas in its first appearance at the Liverpool Biennale; in 2013 he appeared in an issue of New American Painting, where he was recognized as an Editor's Choice. An alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2013), he has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant (2013) and, in 2014, a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.Michael Niblett is a research fellow at the Yesu Persaud Center for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of The Caribbean Novel since 1945 (2012) and coeditor of Perspectives on the “Other America”: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture (2009). He is currently principal investigator on the AHRC-funded project “Decolonizing Voices: World Literature and Broadcast Culture at the End of Empire.”Tavia Nyong'o teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is author of The Amalgamation Waltz (2009) and coeditor of the journal Social Text.Christopher Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. He has published articles in Social Text, American Literature, and History of the Present. He is currently working on a book, “Empire of Neglect: West Indian Writing, British Liberalism, and New Worlds of Care,” which explores the relationship between anglophone Caribbean writing, British political economy, and hemispheric imaginaries during the era of free-trade liberalism.Lesley-Ann Wanliss holds a BA in literatures in English from the University of the West Indies. In July 2012 she was a featured poet at the Poetry Society of Jamaica and in 2011 received an Honorable Mention Award for Prose from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) for Runaway Love. She has been published in the Gleaner, the Literary Arts Section of the Observer, and Gage. She is a part-time lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Performing Arts and at Kingston College. She teaches English, English literature, and performing arts at St. Thomas Technical High School.Alexander G. Weheliye is an associate professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. He is author of Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (2005) and Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (2014). Currently he is working on two projects. The first, “Modernity Hesitant: The Civilizational Diagnostics of W. E. B. Du Bois and Walter Benjamin,” tracks the different ways these thinkers imagine the marginal as central to the workings of modern civilization. The second, “Feenin: R&B's Technologies of Humanity,” offers a critical history of the intimate relationship between R&B music and technology since the late 1970s.

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