Contributors
- Contributors
Rizvana Bradley is an assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Emory University. Her research and teaching focus on black thought and aesthetics, feminist theory, and critical theory. Bradley is currently working on a manuscript that locates the gendered material history of the black diaspora as central to discourses that take up black ontology, black subjectivity, and black aesthetics. Her recent work is forthcoming in Women and Performance and TDR: The Drama Review.
Kahlil Chaar-Pérez is a Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean literature and cultures, political philosophy, aesthetics, and theater studies. Chaar-Pérez has published articles in The Global South, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista Iberoamericana.
Michael R. Griffiths is a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He previously taught at Columbia University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Griffiths has published articles on such topics as indigenous writing, whiteness in the settler colonial public sphere, Daniel Defoe, critical animal studies, Alfred Hitchcock, and Gilles Deleuze in such venues as Postcolonial Studies, Postmodern Culture, Humanimalia, Antipodes, and Australian Literary Studies as well as in several edited collections. Griffiths is currently revising a monograph on biopolitics and the settler colonial archive. [End Page 133]
Raphaël Lauro is a PhD candidate at the Observatory of French and Francophone Writing of the University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, where he currently teaches French and literature. His research focuses on the links between poetry and thought in the work of Édouard Glissant, for whom Lauro worked as a personal assistant between 2008 and 2010. The author of several articles, Lauro is currently preparing an edition of the unpublished works from Glissant’s archive.
Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa teaches in the Humanities Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez. Her research and teaching engage twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literature and philosophies, maritime histories, insular and archipelagic thought, and critical theory. Llenín-Figueroa’s work has appeared in various conference proceedings and journals. In 2010, with Lissette Rolón Collazo, Llenín-Figueroa published ¿Quién le teme a la teoría? Manual de iniciación en críticas literarias y culturales (Editora Educación Emergente). She is currently writing a book on the work of various Caribbean writers and their reconceptualization of insularity.
Emily A. Maguire is an associate professor of Spanish at Northwestern University, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean. The author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (University Press of Florida, 2011), Maguire has published articles on contemporary Caribbean literature, Afrocubanismo, black internationalism, Latina/o science fiction, and Cuban cyberpunk. She is at work on a second book project on Caribbean science fiction.
Damien-Adia Marassa is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Duke University. His research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. and Brazilian African American literature focuses on the fiction of Machado de Assis and the grammatology of sonic, cinematographic, and environmental dimensions of black writing.
Antonia Purk is a PhD candidate in American literature at the University of Erfurt. Her doctoral project examines historiopoiesis in contemporary literature through the work of Jamaica Kincaid.
Nanne Timmer is a senior lecturer in Latin American literature at Leiden University and previously taught at Utrecht University, Antwerp University, and the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. She has published numerous articles in journals such as Revista [End Page 134] Iberoamericana, Confluencia, and Ciberletras on contemporary Cuban literature, the politics of (de)subjectification, national fictions, and intercultural studies. Timmer’s book Ciudad y escritura: Imaginario de la ciudad latinoamericana a las puertas del siglo XXI (Leiden University Press, 2013) focuses on new media. [End Page 135]
