Contributors
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Mequitta Ahuja is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where she was mentored by Kerry James Marshall. Her work has been exhibited in France, India, Germany, Dubai, Belgium, and throughout the United States, and images of her work have been published in such periodicals as Modern Painters, ArtNews, and the New York Times. She has also received a number of awards for her work—e.g., the 2008 Houston Artadia Prize, a 2009 Joan Mitchell Award, and a 2011 Tiffany Foundation Award. This Baltimore resident is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Europe.
Ligia S. Aldana, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, is an associate professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean literatures and cultural studies at SUNY in New Paltz. Her articles have appeared in the Afro-Hispanic Review, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, Revista de estudios colombianos, Publications of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, and Revista UNICARTA.
Rachel Banner is a scholar of nineteenth-century African American literature. Her specific research interests include aesthetic theory, law and literature, and Critical Race Studies. She has published in ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Starting in September 2013, she will be an Assistant Professor of African American literature at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Briaan L. Barron will receive the BA degree in May 2013 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she is majoring in film media arts and American studies. During the fall of 2013, she will begin the MFA program in film and television studies at Boston University.
Ifa Bayeza is author of a number of plays, including Amistad Voices, Club Harlem, Kid Zero, Homer G & the Rhapsodies, for which she received a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays fellowship, and her latest work, Welcome to Wandaland! For her play The Ballad of Emmett Till, a version of which is in the summer 2012 issue of Callaloo (35.3), she received a 2007 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Center Fellowship, the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play, and in 2010, four Ovation Awards, four Drama Desk Critics Circle Awards, and six Backstage Garland Awards including Best Playwriting. She is also a lyricist, composer, director, and novelist. With her sister Ntozake Shange, Bayeza co-authored the novel Some Sing, Some Cry (2010), which she adapted as a musical, Charleston Olio, in 2011. She is a visiting professor in the Department of Africana Studies and an artist-in-residence with Rites and Reason Theatre at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Maria Rice Bellamy is an assistant professor of English at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), where she teaches African American, Multi-Ethnic American, and Diasporic literatures. Her critical essays have or will appear in MELUS, African American Review, and Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison.
Michael Y. Bennett is an assistant professor of English and drama at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the author of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter (2011); Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism (2012); and Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four [End Page 505] Crucial Texts (2012). He is also the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde’s Salome (2011) and the co-editor of Eugene O’Neill’s One-Act Plays: New Critical Perspectives (2012). Currently, he is under contract to write The Cambridge Introduction to the Absurd.
Jayna Brown, who received the PhD degree from Yale University, is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, which won awards from the American Society for Theatre Research and from the Theater Library Association. She is currently a fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History (2012–2013).
Jack Carson, JR. is currently a member of the teaching academic staff in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published previously in Callaloo as well as in The Black Scholar, The Western Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of Black Studies, The Journal of African American History...
