Contributors
- Contributors
Edward Baugh is professor emeritus of English, University of the West Indies, Mona. He served at various times as head of department. Between 1989 and 1992, he was chairperson of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. He is the author of Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision (1978), Derek Walcott (2006), Frank Collymore: A Biography (2009), and a collection of poems, It Was the Singing (2000). He is the editor of Critics on Caribbean Literature (1978) and Derek Walcott’s Selected Poems (2007), and coeditor, with Colbert Nepaulsingh, of Derek Walcott’s Another Life (2004). Two compact discs of him reading his poems have been released: Edward Baugh: Poems from “It Was the Singing” (2002) and Edward Baugh Reading from His Poems (2011).
Laurence A. Breiner is professor of English at Boston University and a member of the African American Studies Program there. He has been a visiting professor in American studies at Tokyo University, a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, an NEH Research Fellow, and an ACLS/SSRC Fellow at University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (1998) and Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry (2008), as well as numerous articles on and reviews of Caribbean poetry and drama. He is currently completing a book on Jamaican performance poetry.
Eddie Chambers is a British-born curator and writer of art criticism. He secured his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1990s, for his research into the emergence of a new generation of black artists in the 1980s in Britain. He is currently an assistant professor of art history at the University of Texas, Austin, teaching courses on art of the African diaspora. He is the author of Run through the Jungle: Selected Writings (1999) and Things Done Change: The Cultural Politics of Recent Black Artists (2011).
Huey Copeland is assistant professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. His research and teaching focus on modern, contemporary, and African American art, with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the visual field. His first book, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press.
Alison Donnell is professor of modern literatures in English at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. She has published widely on Caribbean and black British writings, including the book-length revision of literary history Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History (2006). She is coeditor, with Michael A. Bucknor, of The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2011), and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of West Indian Literature and MaComere. She is currently writing [End Page 228] a monograph titled “Caribbean Queer: Desire, Dissidence, and Constructions of Literary Subjectivity.”
Nadi Edwards teaches in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has published essays on Caribbean literature and popular culture, and his current research interests are in the areas of Caribbean critical traditions and cartographic tropes in postcolonial literature. He is a member of the editorial collective of Small Axe and on the editorial board of Postcolonial Text.
Sonia Farmer is the founder of Poinciana Paper Press, a small fine press, based in the Bahamas, that produces handbound and limited-edition chapbooks of Caribbean writing. Her poetry has appeared in the Caribbean Writer, Poui, tongues of the ocean, WomanSpeak Journal, Correspondence, and Ubiquitous, as well as in An Anthology of Caribbean Poetry for Carifesta X (2008). She holds a BFA in writing from Pratt Institute. She lives and works in Nassau.
Curdella Forbes is a creative writer and professor of Caribbean literature at Howard University. Her essays have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals, including Small Axe. She is the author of three works of fiction—Songs of Silence (2002), Flying with Icarus (2003), A Permanent Freedom (2008)—and of an award-winning academic work, From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming, and the Cultural Performance of Gender (2005). Peepal Tree will publish her latest novel, Ghosts, later this year.
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