Contributors
- Contributors
Thierry Alet is a Guadeloupean-born visual artist. He has exhibited his paintings and drawings in solo and group shows regionally and internationally. Alet's latest exhibition included the monumental sculpture Blood in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. He began his formal training in art at the Institut d'arts visuels, Fort-de-France, Martinique, and later studied, as a graduate student, at Pratt Institute, New York. He is the founder of the Frère Indépendent, an international not-for-profit organization whose aim is to provide widespread visibility to artists. He lives in New York and in Guadeloupe.
Alessandra Benedicty is an assistant professor of Caribbean and francophone literatures in the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education of the City College of New York (CUNY). She has published in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, the Journal of Haitian Studies, and Studies in Religions / Sciences Religieuses.
Erna Brodber was born and raised in deep rural Jamaica. She went through school on scholarships and fellowships, culminating in a PhD in history. Through her company, Blackspace, she engages in a wide range of community volunteering meant to help the descendants of Africans enslaved in the New World to realize their full potential. Her community work, sociological work, and creative work have been recognized by the Institute of Jamaica, with a Musgrave gold medal, and by the University of the West Indies (Mona), with an honorary doctorate in literature.
Rachel Douglas is lecturer in francophone postcolonial studies at the University of Liverpool, where she works on Caribbean literature and film in French and English. She is author of Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (2009), and is currently working on two monograph projects: "Rewriting the Haitian Revolution: C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins in Context" and "Caribbean Rewriting: Rewriting the Caribbean."
Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University and codirector of the Haiti Laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Institute. He is the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012), Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2011), Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2005), and A Colony of Citizens (2006). He is currently writing an Atlantic history of the banjo.
Doris L. Garraway teaches French and francophone literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean (2005) and editor of Tree of Liberty: Cultural Legacies of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2008). Her articles have appeared in the journals Research in African Literatures, the [End Page 208] International Journal of Francophone Studies, Callaloo, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, and in the edited volume The Postcolonial Enlightenment (2009).
Kaiama L. Glover is an associate professor in the French Department and the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has published in the French Review, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, the Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and the Journal of Haitian Studies, and is the author of the book Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010). Her current project considers the ethics of narcissism and configurations of the feminine in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction.
Naïma Hachad is an assistant professor of French at American University, Washington DC. Her work explores artistic and literary forms derived from representations of identity in the Maghreb and the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has authored articles on the works of Abdelkebir Khatibi and Edouard Glissant, bilingualism, memory and space, and Maghrebi feminine voices, appearing in journals such as Etudes Francophones, CELAAN Review, and Revue des Sciences Humaines.
Catherine John is an associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her area of specialty is African diaspora literature. She has a special interest in the philosophy of culture as it has emerged in African American and Afro-Caribbean literary and cultural contexts. She is the author of Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing (2004). She is currently working on a manuscript titled "The Just Society...
