Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Yarimar Bonilla is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University where she is also on the Advisory Board for the Critical Caribbean Studies Initiative and the Institute for Research on Women. She teaches and writes about social movements, colonial legacies, political sovereignty, and historical memory in the Caribbean and the French Outremer. Email: yarimar.bonilla@rutgers.edu.
Jericho Brown is Assistant Professor at Emory University. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and anthologies including, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, The New Yorker, Oxford American, The New Republic, and The Best American Poetry. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues, 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, THE NEW TESTAMENT, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.
Paula Simone Campbell is originally from Miami, Florida. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, where she is a recent graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Fiction MFA program.
Glenda R. Carpio is Professor of African and African American Studies and English at Harvard University and is one of three editors of Transition. Her book, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008) was published by Oxford University Press. She is currently working on a book on immigration, expatriation, and exile in American literature. Professor Carpio recently co-edited African American Literary Studies: New Texts, New Approaches, New Challenges (2011) with Professor Werner Sollors.
Robert Colescott is a renowned American figurative painter best known for his garishly powerful canvases lampooning racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors, and almost tangible glee. In 1997, at age 71, Colescott became the first African American to represent the United States in a solo exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Robert Colescott's work is in several major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Jeannette Ehlers is a video artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark, who explores the Danish transatlantic slave trade. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. She has exhibited her work at C&H Art Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; CBK, Zuidoost, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Museo Del Barrio, New York; ISCP, New York; Kianga Ellis projects, Santa Fe, NM; Cartel Gallery London, England; and others. www.jeannetteehlers.dk. [End Page 169]
Terri Francis is Visiting Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania after nearly a decade of teaching at Yale University. Her primary research interest is Afrosurrealism, highlighting her formalist fascination with African American cinema and love of experimental film in general. Currently she is revising Race Burlesque, a book about the entertainer Josephine Baker. Follow her on Twitter: @Terri_Francis. Email: terri.francis@sas.upenn.edu.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and American Research at Harvard University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of TheRoot.com and the author of sixteen books and twelve documentaries, including the upcoming PBS series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. This latest series chronicles the full sweep of African American history, beginning with the origins of slavery on the African continent, through five centuries of remarkable historic events. He is the recipient of fifty-one honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the MacArthur "genius grant." He was named to Time's "25 Most Influential Americans" list in 1997 and to Ebony's "Power 150" list in 2009 and its "Power 100" list in 2010. The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of Professor Gates' essays, was published in 2012.
Paul r. Harding, the founder and former director of Children's University of ULMS (Urban League Metropolitan Seattle), has come full-circle returning to his NYC roots teaching Critical Thinking, Reading, & Writing (Liberty LEADS at Bank Street College). Also a "Spoken Music" artist who has performed with music legends Charles Gayle, Ravi Coltrane, Joe Ford, Michael Bisio, and Joe McPhee (recording the original poem "This Is Where I Live" on Remembrance CjR5 records, 2001), and has recently finished his first novel, an unpublished manuscript entitled Easter.
Daniel Itzkovitz is Professor...
