Contributors
- Contributors
Ama (Tracey-Anne Clarke) is an anthropologist and social development consultant who lectures in Arts Administration at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston. She is currently pursuing a post-graduate degree in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, developing a policy-activist approach to assess the position of arts and cultural industries in the Jamaican economy.
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of twelve novels including, The Washington Square Ensemble (1983), Waiting for the End of the World (1985), Straight Cut (1986), The Year of Silence (1987), Doctor Sleep (1991), Save Me, Joe Louis (1993), and Ten Indians (1997). In 1995, All Souls’ Rising, the first of his trilogy on the Haitian Revolution, was published; followed by Master of the Crossroads (2000), and The Stone That The Builder Refused (2004). Most recently he is the author of the biography, Toussaint Louverture: A Life (2007). Born and raised in Tennessee, he now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is professor of English at Goucher College, Baltimore, and director of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing.
Edouard Duval Carrié was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1954. He first exhibited in 1980 at the Centre d’Art in Port au Prince. In 1988–1989 he participated in “Revolution sous les Tropiques,” France’s Cooperation Ministry’s project for the celebration of the Bicentennial of French Revolution. In 1992 he had a site-specific installation at Ouidah, Benin, for the first Vaudou Cultures Festival; in 1997 he had an installation, “Vaudou Pantheon,” at the Nexus Center, Atlanta, organized by the Cultural Olympiads; and in 2005, there was a retrospective of his work at the Figge Museum in Davenport. Later this year (2007) a major study of his work Continental Shifts: the Art of Edouard Duval Carrié, edited by Edward Sullivan, will be published by Arte al Dia. He lives in Miami Beach and works in Little Haiti, Miami.
Christopher Cozier is an artist and writer living and working in Trinidad, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of The University of Trinidad & Tobago. He is an adviser to CCA7 in Port of Spain and has been an editorial adviser to BOMB magazine. In 2004 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2006, “Uncomfortable: the Art of Christopher Cozier,” a documentary by Canadian video artist Richard Fung was released. He will be artist in residence at Dartmouth College in the Fall of 2007.
Laurent Dubois is currently associate professor of history at Michigan State University, but will take up a position as professor of romance studies and history at Duke University in the [End Page 217] fall of 2007. He is the author of Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787–1804 (2004), which won Frederick Douglass Prize, and (with John Garrigus), Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804: A Brief History With Documents (2006). He is now writing a general history of the Caribbean and a book about soccer and race in France.
Veronica Marie Gregg teaches at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her published work includes Jean Rhys’s Historical Imagination (1995) and Caribbean Women: An Anthology of Non-Fiction Writing, 1890–1980 (2005), as well as several articles on Anglophone Caribbean literature.
Garfield Ellis is a two-time James Michener Fellow at the Caribbean Writers Institute (1992 and 1993). In his varied career, he has worked as a marine engineering osfficer, placement director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute, and as both the circulation and operations manager of the Jamaica Observer. He is the winner of a number of prizes, including the Una Marson and Canute A. Brodhurst awards. He is the author of four published books: two short story collections, Flaming Hearts & Other Stories (1996), Wake Rasta & Other Stories (2001), and two novels, Such As I Have (2003), For Nothing at All (2005). He lives and works in Jamaica.
Sibylle Fischer is associate professor of...
