Contributors

Tolin Alexander is a theater maker. His intercultural and interdisciplinary work draws inspiration from Suriname’s multiethnic culture, particularly as it relates to his own Maroon culture and traditions. He participates in numerous national and international exchange projects with individual artists and organizations in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Recent projects include Swartgat/Dunguolo (2020), Stones Have Laws (IDFA film, 2018), and the theaterwork Lofzang op de Vrijheid (2018).Corinna Campbell is an ethnomusicologist and associate professor of music at Williams College. Her research among the Suriname Maroons highlights themes that include music/dance interconnections, Surinamese cultural nationalism, culture-representational/folkloric performance, and the politics of performance. She is author of The Cultural Work: Maroon Performance in Paramaribo, Suriname (2020).Rhonda Cobham-Sander is professor of English and Black studies at Amherst College. She is author of I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V. S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite, and Derek Walcott (2016) and has published in Callaloo, PMLA, Postcolonial Text, Research in African Literature, Small Axe, and Transition, as well as in numerous critical anthologies. Her current book project, “Amital Queer: Aunts, Auntie Men, and Other Anansis,” examines how Caribbean writers engage the figure of the aunt.Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is associate professor in English at the University of Johannesburg and director of the university’s Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class. Her research interests include Black intellectual history and Caribbean, African, and African American literatures. She has published in Small Axe and Callaloo, as well as The Black Scholar, for which she was coeditor, with Christopher Ouma and Litheko Modisane, of the special issue “After Madiba: Black Studies in South Africa.” She is a member of the Other Universals Collective, a consortium of scholars in South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia, Barbados, and Lebanon committed to exploring intellectual histories of exchange across Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South Asia. Her current book project excavates the print cultures of Black migrants to Cape Town from the Caribbean, the United States, West Africa, and other parts of South Africa before the rise of anticolonial nationalism.Johnhenry Gonzalez is university assistant professor of Caribbean history in the Cambridge Faculty of History. He is author of Maroon Nation (2019), which focuses on the Haitian Revolution and the early decades of Haitian independence, and his current book project explores the history of the twentieth-century Haitian art business. He teaches on the Caribbean and the African diaspora.Andil Gosine is professor of environmental arts and justice at York University, Toronto, and curator of the New York–based exhibitions everything slackens in a wreck (the Ford Foundation, 2022), Kelly Sinnapah Mary (Aicon Gallery, upcoming 2023), and The Plural of He (Leslie-Lohman Museum, upcoming 2024). The exhibition Nature’s Wild, based on his book of the same name, is scheduled to open at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, in June 2025.Nadia Huggins (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) is a self-taught visual artist who works primarily with photography. In 2011, she cofounded the visual arts publication ARC Magazine. Her photography was awarded the Festival caribéen de l’image du Mémorial ACTe Jury Prize in Guadeloupe in 2015 and has been exhibited regionally and internationally, including in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago (Museum of Latin American Art, California, 2018–19), the 2017 Jamaica Biennial (National Gallery, Kingston); Small Axe: Caribbean Queer Visualities (Belfast and Glasgow, 2016); Fighting the Currents (Centro de La Imagen, Dominican Republic, 2016); In Another Place, and Here (Victoria, British Columbia, 2015); the 2014 CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto); and Wrestling with the Image (Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC, 2011). Born in 1984 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, she currently resides in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.Rajiv Mohabir is author of four collections of poetry, including Whale Aria (2023) and Cutlish (2021), and the hybrid memoir Antiman (2021). Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (2019) won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2020. He currently teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.Dashiell Moore is an early career researcher at the University of Sydney. His research interests include world literature, postcolonial theory, and Indigenous studies, with a particular concentration in modern and contemporary Caribbean, Australian, and Pacific writing in English. He has published scholarly articles in a number of key journals, including Textual Practice and the Journal of West Indian Literature. His book project “The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean,” to be published by Oxford University Press, examines the relationship between Aboriginal Australian and Caribbean literature.Alexandra Perisic is associate professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade, Serbia. Her teaching and research interests include contemporary francophone literature of sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, literatures of the Black Atlantic, and theories of globalization. She is author of Precarious Crossings: Immigration, Neoliberalism, and the Atlantic (2019), in which, through a comparative study of contemporary transatlantic immigrant narratives in French, Spanish, and English, she offers an account of a multilingual Atlantic under neoliberalism.Velma Pollard is a retired senior lecturer in language education at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Her major research interests have been Creole languages of the anglophone Caribbean, the language of Caribbean literature, and Caribbean women’s writing. Essays in these areas appear in local and international journals. She is author of From Jamaican Creole to Standard English—A Handbook for Teachers (1994, 2003) and Dread Talk—The Language of Rastafari (1994, 2000). She is also involved in creative writing and is author of a novel, three collections of short fiction, and five books of poetry.Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington. She is author of the award-winning book Silencing Race: Disentangling Race, Colonialism, and National Identities in Puerto Rico (1850–1920) (2012) and coeditor, with Laurie Sears, of “The Politics of Storytelling in Island Imperial Formations,” a special issue of Positions (2021).Michelle V. Rowley is associate professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland. She has also held a visiting appointment as a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Carleton College. Her publications address issues of gender and development, the politics of welfare, and Caribbean women’s reproductive health and well-being. She is presently completing a manuscript that examines queer representations of “home” in the English-speaking Caribbean.David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Most recently he is author of, with Orlando Patterson, The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue (2023), and Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (forthcoming).Faith Smith is author of Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern (2023). Her current project, “DreadKin,” examines fiction and visual culture of the last decade to ask how Black and Asian descendants of enslaved, indentured, and slave-trading historical subjects weigh the claims of desire, kinship, and prosperity in our contemporary global moment. She teaches at Brandeis University.Maureen Warner-Lewis is emeritus professor of African-Caribbean language and orature in the Department of Literatures in English, University of the West Indies, Mona, where her teaching specializations were Anglo-Saxon, West Indian, African, and oral literatures. Her research on African cultural and linguistic retentions in the Caribbean has resulted in the publication of five books.Kedon Willis is assistant professor of English at CUNY–City College. His areas of interest include comparative Caribbean literature and queer theory, and his research examines the evolution (and limits) of liberation in the writings of queer authors of Caribbean heritage. His scholarship, creative writing, and journalism have appeared in outlets such as the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of West Indian Literature, Obsidian, and the History Channel.SJ Zhang is assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. Their current project, “Going Maroon and Other Forms of Family,” considers how reproduction and carceral forces shaped the decisions and triggered the archives of four women who went maroon in North America and the Caribbean between 1781 and 1820. Their work is published in Representations, Women and Performance, and Transition, and in Caribbean Literature in Transition: 1800–1920 (2021), the first volume of three in the Cambridge series.

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