Contributors
- Contributors
Petrine Archer is an art historian, lecturer, and curator currently teaching at Cornell University, Ithaca. Trained at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, she is the author of Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s (2000), coauthor of Jamaican Art (1990), and editor of Fifty Years—Fifty Artists (2000). Her new exhibition and publication titled Rasta! is forthcoming.
Tanya Batson-Savage is an MPhil candidate at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her career has spanned the gamut of teaching, journalism, advertising, publicity, and creative writing. She is the author of a collection of stories for children, Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories (2005). Her writings have appeared in Moods of Jamaica, Jamaica Journal, and Bim.
Jane Bryce was born and brought up in Tanzania, and was educated there as well as in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. Since 1992, she has taught at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where she is professor of African literature and cinema. She has published in the areas of contemporary African and Caribbean fiction, film and visual culture, popular writing, women’s writing, and journalism, and her own creative writing, and is the author of Chameleon (2007), a collection of short fiction, and editor of Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean (2006).
Raphael Dalleo is assistant professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale. He is coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (2007), a study of the relationship of politics and the market to contemporary literature from the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora. His essays on Caribbean literature have been published in Journal of West Indian Literature, Anthurium, South Asian Review, and Diaspora. He is currently completing a manuscript titled “Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From Anticolonial to Postcolonial.”
Donette Francis is an associate professor in the Department of English at Binghamton University. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (2010).
Lorna Goodison was born in Jamaica and has received much recognition and many awards for her writing in both poetry and prose, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region), the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, and most recently the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (2007). Her books of poetry include Tamarind Season (1980), I Am Becoming My Mother (1986), Heartease (1988), Selected Poems (1992), To Us, All Flowers Are Roses [End Page 184] (1995), Turn Thanks (1999), Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems (2000), Travelling Mercies (2001), Controlling the Silver (2005), and Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems (2006). She has also published two collections of short stories, Baby Mother and the King of Swords (1990) and Fool-Fool Rose Is Leaving Labour-in-Vain Savannah (2005). Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the Americas and in Europe. She currently teaches in the Department of English and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, where she is the Lemuel A. Johnson Collegiate Professor.
Satch Hoyt is a visual artist and musician currently living and working in Berlin. He makes sculptures and installations accompanied with sound, as well as paintings and drawings. He has recorded with Grace Jones and Louise Bourgeois (in her less-well-known activities as spoken-word poet and rapper), and is currently a member of Greg Tate’s band Burnt Sugar and is working on a solo album titled “Griots and CyberCrooks.”
Kelly Baker Josephs is an assistant professor of English at York College, City University of New York. She teaches courses in anglophone Caribbean literature, postcolonial literature and theory, literatures of the African diaspora, and gender studies. She is currently working on a book on representations of madness in anglophone Caribbean literature.
Carter Mathes is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he specializes in African American literature and African diaspora studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Imagine the Sound: Experimental Form in Post–Civil Rights African American Literature” and is also beginning a project that focuses on the circulation of black internationalism and cultural production between Jamaica and the...
