Contributors
- Contributors
Clare Counihan is an assistant professor of English at Nazareth College, Rochester, New York. She is the author of "Reading the Figure of Woman in African Literature: Psychoanalysis, Difference, and Desire," which appeared in Research in African Literatures (2007), and is currently working on a project on experimental literature by contemporary southern African writers.
Nicholas Draper is a member of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project team in the Department of History at University College London. His work centers on the impact of the "business of slavery" on the formation of modern Britain. He is the author of The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery (2010).
Joscelyn Gardner is a visual artist whose prints and multimedia installations explore Creole identity from a postcolonial feminist perspective. Her work has been exhibited widely in Europe, the United States, Canada, South and Central America, the Caribbean, and India, and was included in Infinite Island, at the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Global Caribbean, which traveled from Art Basel in Miami to museums in France and Puerto Rico; and Utropicos, at the Thirty-First Biennial de Pontevedra in Spain. Recently her lithographs received the Grand Prize at the Seventh International Contemporary Printmaking Biennial in Quebec. Gardner currently teaches in the School of Contemporary Media at Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, and works as an artist between Canada and the Caribbean. Her work can be viewed at www.joscelyngardner.com.
Peter James Hudson is an assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University. His essays and reviews have appeared in journals, including Race and Class, Empire and Globalization, Transition, Chimurenga, and Prefix Photography. He is the editor of "North: New African Canadian Writing," a special issue of the Vancouver-based journal West Coast Line, and the editor of the digital history resource The Public Archive: History beyond the Headlines (the-publicarchive. com). He is currently coediting a special issue of the C. L. R. James Journal on African Canadian thought and completing the manuscript "Dark Finance: Wall Street and the West Indies, 1873-1933."
Erica Moiah James is an assistant professor in the Departments of the History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, she served as the founding director and chief curator of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. She earned a PhD in art history from Duke University and has served as a Clark Fellow (Clark Art Institute), a John Hope Franklin Fellow (Duke University), an International Association of University Women [End Page 179] graduate fellow, and a postdoctoral teaching fellow (Washington University-St. Louis). She is completing her first book.
Christer Petley teaches history at the University of Southampton and is chair of the UK Society for Caribbean Studies. His work has focused on slavery and abolition in the British Caribbean, particularly slave owners and the planter class. He is the author of Slaveholders in Jamaica (2009) and has published articles in Slavery and Abolition, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Historical Journal.
Tzarina T. Prater received her PhD from Rutgers University in 2009 and is currently an assistant professor of English with Bentley University's English and Media Studies Department. Her areas of specialization are nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American literature, American literature, anglophone Caribbean literature, and gender and cultural studies. She is currently transforming her dissertation into a book project tentatively titled "Cinematic Vernacular in Black Fiction."
Mark Raymond is an architect based in Port of Spain, Trinidad. After completing his studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, he worked on projects in Europe before returning to Trinidad to establish his own practice. He has been responsible for a wide range of projects in Trinidad and various locations throughout the Caribbean, on his own account and in collaboration with others.
Susan Thorne teaches modern British history at Duke University. Her book Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England (1999) explores the influence of foreign missionaries on popular perceptions of empire and race in nineteenth-century England. She is currently working on a social history of orphaned children in Britain and the empire from...
