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  • Contributors

ROBERT CARR received his Ph.D. in English this past year from the University of Maryland. His translation, with Ileana Rodriguez, of her study Eroticism and Patriotism: The Hermeneutics of Gender in Central American Literature, is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.

AL CREIGHTON, a native of Jamaica, has served as Senior Lecturer in English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Guyana. During the time he wrote the article in this issue of Callaloo, he was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Cari bbean Studies at the University of Warwick in England. He is also a poet, playwright, theater director, and arts critic.

JEAN-PIERRE DURIX is Professor of English at the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France, and Editor of the journal Commonwealth. A translator and specialist in Caribbean and South Pacific literatures, he has published widely on postcolonia l writers from Africa and the Indian subcontinent. His most recent books are The Writer Written: The Artist and Creation in the New Literatures in English and (with Carole Durix) An Introduction to the New Literatures in English.

MARY LOU EMERY is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies. She is author of Jean Rhys at “World’s End”: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile and forthcoming articles on Vi rginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence and May Sinclair.

JOYCE HAYES FORBES is a professor in the English Department at Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada. She is a recipient of two Canadian teaching awards, the provincial Ontario Confederation of University Teachers (OCUFA) award, and the national 3M Canad a Award. She has been active at the provincial and national levels on black feminist issues, and is a member of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) Status of Women Committee.

WILSON HARRIS, a native of Guyana, lives in England. He is the author of numerous books of fiction and essays, including The Palace of the Peacock, Da Silva Da Silva’s Cultivated Wilderness, The Eye of the Scarecrow, Carnival, Genesis of the Clowns, The Age of the Rainmakers, The Whole Armor, The Infinite Rehearsal, Resurrection at Sorrow Hill, and The Radical Imagination. His work is the subject of this special issue of Calla loo.

VERA M. KUTZINSKI, a native of Germany, is Professor of English, African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. She is the author of Against the American Grain and Super’s Secret: Race and the Erotics of Cuban Nationalism.

KRISHNA RAY LEWIS is a candidate for the Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

NATHANIEL MACKEY, editor of Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose, is author of numerous articles and nine books, including two novels, Bedouin Hornbook and Djbot Baghostus’s Run; a book of essays, Discrepant Engagement: Disson ance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing; and six volumes of poems, including Eroding Witness and School of Udhra. He edits Hambone, a literary magazine, at the University of California-Santa Cruz, where he is Professor of literature.

HENA MAES-JELINEK is a professor of English and Commonwealth literature at the Université de Liège in Belgium. She is author of Wilson Harris, Criticism of Society in the English Novel Between the Wars, The Naked Design: A R eading of The Palace of the Peacock, and Heart of Darkness: A Critical Commentary. She has also edited books and periodicals, and has written many articles and chapters of books on twentieth-century literature in English.

ALDON L. NIELSEN is Professor of English at San Jose State University. His book Reading Race: White American Poets and the Racial Discourse in the Twentieth Century received the Kayden Prize for best book in the Humanities. His newest book, Writ ing Between the Lines: Race and Intertextuality, has just been published by the University of Georgia Press. Nielsen was the first winner of the Larry Neal Award for Poetry, and his two books of poems are Heat Strings and Evacuation Routes.

ALAN RIACH is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he teaches courses in Scottish, American and Post-colonial literatures, and modern...

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