Contributors

Nancy Bird-Soto is professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Latin American and US Latinx literatures. In 2018 she published Dissident Spirits: The Post-insular Imprint in Puerto Rican / Diasporic Literature. As a creative writer she has published the short-story collection Sobre la tela de una araña (2016) and the novel Aries Point (2016). Since 2013 she has been a contributor for Revista Cruce.Luis Carle (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) is a Puerto Rican–born artist-photographer based in New York, where he moved in 1982 to study at Parsons School of Design. He began to work as an assistant to various well-known photographers in the late 1980s. In 1992 he founded and directed a group of highly gifted Puerto Rican artists called O. P. Art, Inc. (Organization of Puerto Rican Artists, Inc.). His photographs have been shown in galleries and museums throughout New York, including the Museo del Barrio and MOCADA: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and elsewhere, including the Caribbean Museum in St. Croix and the Museo de las Américas in San Juan. Carle’s work is part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.Natalie Catasús is a poet and scholar working at the intersections of Caribbean literature, visual culture, and memory studies. She is currently a 2022–23 fellow with the American Association of University Women; her dissertation examines Caribbean texts in which “drifting” figures practice makeshift creative methods for survival. Her research on the Cuban balseros and pedagogical work are featured in the Smithsonian Learning Lab and the National Humanities Center’s digital educational library.Audra A. Diptée is associate professor of history and coordinator of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Carleton University. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she has published on slavery, childhood, memory, and critical applied history. Her current projects, which bridge the gap between the academic and public arenas, were granted support by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. For more, see www.audradiptee.com.Ben Etherington is senior lecturer in English at Western Sydney University. His current research, which is supported by a three-year Australian Research Council grant, is on the poetics of anglophone Caribbean Creole verse between the abolition of slavery and decolonization. The grant also involves a collaboration with the Sydney-based Jamaican writer Sienna Brown for a podcast series on the history of Caribbean people in Australia. His recent publications include Literary Primitivism (2018) and an essay on Louise Bennett and the decolonization of civic verse in volume 2 of Caribbean Literature in Transition (2021).Randi Gill-Sadler is assistant professor of English and Africana studies at Davidson College. She specializes in twentieth-century African American and Afro-Caribbean women’s literature, US cultures of imperialism, and Black feminist literary criticism. Her work examines how late-twentieth-century Black women writers both anticipate and critique African Americans’ participation in US imperial exploits and the consequences for Black diasporic relationality.Grace L. Sanders Johnson is a historian and visual artist, and assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of study include modern Caribbean history, transnational feminisms, oral history, and environmental humanities. She is author of White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti (forthcoming).Laurie R. Lambert is an interdisciplinary scholar, working at the intersection of literature and history in African diaspora studies. She is associate professor of African and African American studies at Fordham University. Her first book, Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (2020), examines the gendered implications of political trauma in literature on Grenada.Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa is a companion, comrade, friend, writer, editor, translator, and animal and live arts apprentice. After almost a decade of adjunct teaching at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and at Río Piedras, she is now an independent writer and scholar standing for Puerto Rican and Caribbean emancipations and associate editor at Editora Educación Emergente. Her books include Puerto Islas: Crónicas, crisis, amor (2018) and Affect, Archive, Archipelago: Puerto Rico’s Sovereign Caribbean Lives (2022).Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His most recent publications are The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (2021) and Páginas libres: Breve antología del pensamiento anarquista en Puerto Rico (2021). He is currently completing a book titled “Puerto Rico: A National History.”Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. His documentary work includes Detroit’s Rivera: The Labor of Public Art (2017), Mar Arriba: Los conjuros de Silvia Cusicanqui (2011), and Retornar a La Habana con Guillén Landrián (2014), codirected with Raydel Araoz. Since his retirement from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010, he has continued to work as an independent researcher, teaching at several institutions, including New York University; the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (Quito, Ecuador); the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV (Cayo la Rosa, Cuba); and the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina).Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, the Lambda Literary Award, and an NEA Translation Fellowship. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania and lives and works in Puerto Rico as investigator and head of the translation team for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project.Luis Othoniel Rosa is author of the novels Otra vez me alejo (2012) and Caja de fractales (2017), the latter translated into English as Down with Gargamel! (2020). He is also author of the scholarly monograph Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (2016, 2020). He teaches at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Belinda Deneen Wallace is associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Her research centers on Caribbean literary studies and is rooted in intersectionality and new historicism. Her writings have appeared in several journals, including Cultural Dynamics, the Journal of Canadian Studies, and Open Cultural Studies. Her current research project queers Caribbean resistance movements and slave rebellions.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.