Contributors

André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture and Black cybercultures; his scholarship examines race in social media, video games, blogs, and other digital media. His book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures (2020), which theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked technologies, was awarded the 2021 Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies and the 2021 Association of Internet Researchers Nancy Baym Book Award and was recently named by the Verge as one of the “top tech books of all time.”Charles V. Carnegie is the author of Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (2002) and professor emeritus at Bates College. He divides his time between Lewiston, Maine, and Kingston, Jamaica, working with nonprofit organizations in both places. Publications based on his research in Kingston include “The Loss of the Verandah: Kingston’s Constricted Postcolonial Geographies” (2014) and “Walk-Foot People Matter” (2016), both in Social and Economic Studies, and “How Did There Come to Be a ‘New Kingston’?” (2017), in Small Axe.Matthew Chin is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, history, gender, and sexuality trained in anthropology and social work who teaches in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. His book project Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (forthcoming), which proposes queer fractals as theory and method of history-making, is a winner of the Duke University Press Scholar of Color First Book Award. Chin’s work has been published in Public Culture, Interventions, Time and Society, Small Axe, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, and Journal of Homosexuality.Timothy S. Chin is currently the interim associate dean in the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His academic training and research interests are in Caribbean literature and culture, African American literature and culture, theories of diaspora and transnationalism, and theories of race, gender, and sexuality. He has written on Chinese Jamaican literary and cultural production, Caribbean immigrants in African American literature, and homophobia in Black popular culture and Caribbean literature. He was born in Jamaica and raised in Kingston and Queens, New York.Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Caribbean literature and Black diaspora studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (2021) and coeditor of three critical volumes, including, with Nalini Mohabir, The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation (2022). He is also an affiliated member of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.Nathalie Etoke is an associate professor of francophone and Africana studies at the Graduate Center, City University New York. She is the author of Melancholia Africana: L’indispensable dépassement de la condition noire (2010), winner of the 2012 Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association and translated by Bill Hamlett as Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition (2019); Nuances du noir, translated by Gila Walker as Shades of Black (2021); and Black Existential Freedom (2022).Rachel Goffe is a geographer and an architect. Her work is concerned with place-making and livelihood and how these are negotiated with, through, and against postcolonial state formation. She investigates transformations of the state by researching the mobility of the boundary around “formal” relationships to space. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography (Scarborough) and the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto.Lewis R. Gordon is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut and a distinguished scholar at the Most Honourable P. J. Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at the University of the West Indies, Mona. His recent books include Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (2021), Fear of Black Consciousness (2022), and Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon (2023).Njelle Hamilton is a Jamaican songwriter, storyteller, and scholar. As a literary scholar and associate professor at the University of Virginia, she specializes in narrative innovations in the contemporary Caribbean novel. She is the author of Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (2019) and numerous essays on contemporary Caribbean literary and cultural studies. Her fiction has appeared in Centripetal, Caribbean in Transit, and Pree: Caribbean Writing and has won the support of fellowships and residencies from Oxbelly, Tin House, and Anaphora Arts. She is currently working on a nonfiction book about Caribbean time-travel narratives, as well as a novel, “Everything Irie.”Versia Harris (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) lives and works in Barbados, where she received her BFA in studio art in 2012. Her residencies in the Caribbean and North and South America include, among others, Alice Yard, Trinidad, and the Vermont Studio Center. She has also exhibited in London, China, Nigeria, Moscow, Michigan, California, and Aruba. She was awarded a Fulbright Laspau Scholarship in 2017 and in May 2019 received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, where she also earned a Mercedes-Benz Financial Services New Beginnings Award. In 2022, Versia took part in Documenta15 with Alice Yard and exhibited at the Grimmwelt Museum in Kassel, Germany. She continues to exhibit internationally, while teaching at the Barbados Community College.Terrence L. Johnson is the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies. His research interests encompass African American political thought, ethics, American religions, and the intricate role religion plays in the public sphere. Johnson is the author of Tragic Soul-Life: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Moral Crisis Facing American Democracy (2012) and We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter (2021), and coauthor, with Jacques Berlinerblau, of Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue (2022). He serves as coeditor of the Duke University Press series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People. Presently he is working on a manuscript titled “The Law of Race and Public Religions: Talking Book Traditions and the Limits of Originalism,” contracted with Columbia University Press.Rachel Grace Newman will be joining Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department as an assistant professor in the fall of 2024. She specializes in the art history of the colonial Caribbean and contemporary art practices of the Caribbean and African diasporas. She is finishing her first book, an examination of Jamaica in the nineteenth century, the art of William Berryman, the beauty and pain of belonging and diaspora, and ancestral power.Matthew Omelsky is an assistant professor of English and visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, where he is also a core faculty member in the Frederick Douglass Institute and Department of Black Studies. He is the author of Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond (2023).Charlotte Rogers is an associate professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Jungle Fever: Exploring Madness and Medicine in Twentieth-Century Tropical Narratives (2012) and Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics (2019) which won honorable mention in the Latin American Studies Association Amazonia section Best Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (ISLE), and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (REH).David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author most recently of Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History (2024).Deborah A. Thomas is the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and the director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (2004), Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica (2011), and Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation (2019), and codirector of the films Four Days in May (2010) and Bad Friday: Rastafari after Coral Gardens (2011). Prior to her life in the academy, she was a professional dancer with the New York–based Urban Bush Women.

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