Contributors
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VINCENT ANIOKE, born in Nigeria, is an eighteen-year-old sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is majoring in computer science and creative writing. His is author of Whirlwind of Metamorphosis, a novel published in Nigeria by Acena Ventures. His short story “The Song of Cocytus” was published in Literary Orphans in the USA.
PAULINE BAIRD is a teacher-researcher, whose research interests include Caribbean rhetoric, cultural rhetoric, ESL composition, and diversity in writing. Currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Guam, she has worked and studied in the Caribbean, Micronesia, Asia, and the United States. She a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing at Bowling Green State University.
MARQUIS BEY graduated summa cum laude from Lebanon Valley College in 2014 with majors in philosophy, American studies, and English. He is now studying for the PhD at Cornell University’s English program, where he is specializing in African American literature, as well as feminist, gender, and sexuality studies. He has published creative work in Green Blotter Literary Society, critical work in Mind Murals: The Literary and Arts Journal of Sigma Tau Delta’s Eastern Region, and a number of entries for BlackPast.org.
ROGER BONAIR-AGARD, a native of Trinidad & Tobago, is a Cave Canem fellow, the co-founder of NYC’s louderARTS Project, and author of three collections of poems: tarnish & masquerade (Cypher Books, 2006), GULLY (Cypher Books/Peepal Tree Press 2010), and Bury My Clothes (Haymarket Books, 2013), winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award for Poetry.
MARISSA J. BROWN recently obtained her PhD in the Department of French at the University of Virginia. She specializes in contemporary French and Francophone literatures and is interested in transnational studies and literary works on migration.
JAMIE BRUMMER teaches English and coaches soccer at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Brummer graduated magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Great Books. He holds a master’s degree in English and a certificate in African American literature from the University of Memphis, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in modern and contemporary American literature.
ANDRÉ CARRINGTON is Assistant Professor of African American literature in the Department of English & Philosophy at Drexel University. He has contributed to Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call (eds. Charles Stephens & Steven Fullwood 2014) and the forthcoming Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (ed. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson). His first book, on the topic of blackness in speculative fiction, will be published by University of Minnesota Press in 2015. He serves on the Board of Directors for the New York-based CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies.
ÁNGELA CASTRO is studying for the PhD at the University of Minnesota, where she is working on Caribbean literatures within the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department. She earned her BA in literature from Universidad del Valle in Colombia, 2009, and her MA in Hispanic literature and culture at University of Minnesota, 2013. [End Page 238]
MARC C. CONNER is the Jo M. and James M. Ballengee Professor of English and Associate Provost at Washington and Lee. He took degrees in English and philosophy at the University of Washington (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude) and the MA and PhD degrees in English at Princeton University. He has taught at Princeton and the University of Notre Dame. His books include The Aesthetics of Toni Morrison: Speaking the Unspeakable (2000), Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher (2007), and The Poetry of James Joyce Reconsidered (2012).
MICHELLE COWIN-MENSAH is a doctoral candidate in theater at Bowling Green State University. Her research interests include performance studies, identity, representation, and visibility in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American history. She holds an MFA in acting from University of California, Irvine, and a BA in theater performance from Western Michigan University.
HOWARD DODSON—author, curator, cultural activist, and innovative administrator—is Director of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Director of Howard University Libraries. From 1984–2011, he served as Director of New York City’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, of which he is now Director Emeritus. Under his leadership, the Schomburg Center developed into...
