Contributors
- Contributors
Lauren K. Alleyne is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has earned the 2003 Atlantic Monthly Student Poetry Prize, the Robert Chasen Graduate Poetry Prize (Cornell University), the International Publication Prize (Atlanta Review), and honorable mention in the 2009 Reginald Shepherd Memorial Poetry Prize and the 2003 Gival Press Tri-Language Poetry Contest. She has been published in the journals Black Arts Quarterly, Caribbean Writer, Belleview Literary Review, and Crab Orchard Review, as well as in the anthologies Growing Up Girl (2006) and Gathering Ground (2006). Alleyne is co-editor of From the Heart of Brooklyn: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (2003), and her chapbook Dawn in the Kaatskills was published in 2008. She is currently the poet-in-residence at the University of Dubuque, Iowa, where she is also an assistant professor of English.
Marvin Bartley is an artist based in Jamaica. His interest in photography is an accidental one; he attended the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, to major in painting. As his interest grew he recognized that the basic elements of classical painting, such as light and composition, could be applied to digital photography and editing in unimaginable ways. His bizarre portrayal of religious themes and the profound use of nudity—ideas stimulated by Dante’s Inferno—make his work easily discernible.
Kamau Brathwaite is a distinguished historian, literary-cultural critic, and poet. After a long career teaching in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, he now teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. A founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement and a founding editor of Savacou, Brathwaite is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Among his most recent books are Ancestors (2001), MR (Magical Realism) (2002), Words Need Love Too (2004), Born to Slow Horses (2005), and Elegguas (2010).
Rhonda Cobham is the William J. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College, where she teaches Caribbean and African literature and postcolonial theory. Her essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as Callaloo, Small Axe, Transition, and Research in African Literatures.
Nadia Ellis is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the literature and culture of the African diaspora. Her current research includes a book project that considers the interplay between materiality and immateriality in formulations of a black diaspora, particularly in relation to Caribbean independence movements. She teaches courses on black literature, postcolonial studies, and queer theory. [End Page 209]
Cheryl Finley is acting director of the Visual Studies Program and assistant professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. A frequent writer and lecturer on such themes as African diaspora art, photography, the art market, heritage tourism, and the aesthetics of memory, she served on the editorial board of the innovative interdisciplinary Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010). She is the author of the forthcoming book Committed to Memory: The Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic Imagination and coauthor of Harlem: A Century in Images (2010) and Diaspora, Memory, Place: David Hammons, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Pamela Z (2008). She is also a curator: Finley’s “African Diaspora Room” opened as part of the inaugural exhibition “In My Father’s House” at the August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh, in September 2010. Her research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Christian Høgsbjerg has completed a PhD titled “C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain, 1932–38,” in the Department of History at the University of York (UK). He is the editor of a forthcoming special edition of C. L. R. James’s 1934 play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History, and in 2008 co-organized a one-day conference in London to mark the seventieth anniversary of the publication of The Black Jacobins. He is a member of the editorial board of International Socialism...
