Contributors
- Contributors
Susan Buck-Morss is Jan Rock Zubrow '77 Professor of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca. She is a member of the graduate fields of comparative literature, German studies, and the history of art and visual studies, and teaches in the School of Art, Architecture, and Planning. Her books include Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009), Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (2003), Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (2000), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (1989), and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School (1977).
Elizabeth Duchanaud received her PhD in French literature from New York University, where her research focused on works from the francophone Caribbean. Her doctoral thesis has since been published as Reading the French Caribbean through Edouard Glissant (2009).
Michaël F. Ferrier is a professor at Chuo University, Tokyo, and director of the research group Figures de l'étranger. He is the author of several texts on Japan, including Japon: La barrière des rencontres (2009) and Maurice Pinguet: Le texte Japon (2009), and of the novels Tokyo: Petits portraits de l'aube (2004) and Sympathie pour le fantôme (2010).
Sibylle Fischer is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and Africana studies at New York University. She is the author of Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004), which received the 2005 Frantz Fanon Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, the 2006 Katherine Singer Kovacs Award of the Modern Language Association, and the 2006 Bryce Wood Award of the Latin American Studies Association. She is also the editor of Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes, or El Angel Hill (2005). The essay published here is part of a new project on the politics and ethics of representations of violence in the Caribbean.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He is author of Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity (2000) and Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures (2005), and coeditor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction (2003) and Francophone Thought in the Postcolonial World (2009). He is a Fellow of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery and is currently completing a study of representations of Toussaint Louverture.
Mary Gallagher is associate professor of French and francophone literatures at University College, Dublin. In addition to a number of published essays, she is the author of La créolité de Saint-John Perse (1998), Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock [End Page 186] of Space and Time (2002), and World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization (2008). She is currently working on a book about the Creole connection in the work of the Greco-Anglo-Irish author Lafcadio Hearn.
Kaiama L. Glover is an assistant professor in the Department of French and in the Africana Studies Program at Barnard College, New York. She has lectured and published widely in the fields of francophone literature and postcolonial studies. Recent essays appear in the Journal of Postcolonial Writings and the Journal of Haitian Studies, and articles on Haitian novelist Jean-Claude Fignolé are forthcoming in the French Review and Research in African Literatures. Her book Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010) addresses the general issue of canon formation in the French-speaking Caribbean and the particular fate of the Haitian Spiralist authors vis-à-vis this canon.
Leah Gordon, whose work also appears on the cover of this issue, is a photographer, film-maker, and curator who teaches fact-based film at the University for Creative Arts, Surrey. In the 1980s she was lyricist and singer for a London-based punk folk band. She has made a number of films about Haiti, including A Pig's Tale, for Channel 4, and Atis-Rezistans: The Sculptors of Grand Rue. She is the creator and cocurator of the Ghetto Biennale, which was held in Port-au-Prince in December 2009.
Pascale Monnin was born in Port-au-Prince in 1974. A multidimensional artist, she draws, paints, etches, and sculpts, and also...
