Contributors
- Contributors
Phanuel Antwi is assistant professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies; settler colonial studies; black Atlantic and diaspora studies; Canadian literature and culture since 1830; critical race, gender, and sexuality studies; and material cultures. He has published articles in Interventions, Affinities, and Studies in Canadian Literature, and he is completing a book-length project titled “Currencies of Blackness: Faithfulness, Cheerfulness and Politeness in Settler Writing.”
Stephen Best is associate professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (2004) and is currently working on a new project on slavery and the limits of historicist critique.
Christopher T. Bonner received his PhD in French from New York University in 2015. His research investigates the relationship between politics and literature, with a particular interest in the political valences of literary genres and forms in the context of anti- and postcolonial writing. He is currently serving as a postdoctoral fellow in French at New York University.
Camille Chedda (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) graduated from the Edna Manley College with an Honours Diploma in Painting and received her MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions at the National Gallery of Jamaica, including the Jamaica Biennial 2014 and New Roots (2013). She has also exhibited internationally in Boston, New York, Germany, and China. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Albert Huie Award, the Reed Foundation Scholarship, and the inaugural Dawn Scott Memorial Award for an outstanding contribution to the Jamaica Biennial 2014. Chedda is currently a painting lecturer at the Edna Manley College in Kingston.
Huey Copeland is associate dean for Academic Affairs in the Graduate School, associate professor of art history, and affiliated faculty in the Department of African American Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northwestern University. He is the author of Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (2013).
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is professor of French and philosophy at Columbia University. His field of research includes history of logic, history of philosophy, Islamic philosophy, African philosophy, and literature. He is the author of a number of books, including African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (2011); Bergson postcolonial: L’élan vital dans la pensée de Senghor et de Mohamed Iqbal (2011), which was awarded the Dagnan-Bouveret prize by the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences for 2011; L’encre des [End Page 225] savants: Réflexions sur la philosophie en Afrique (2013); and Comment philosopher en Islam (2013). He is also the recipient of the Edouard Glissant Prize for his work.
Charles Forsdick is James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for “Translating Cultures.” He has published widely on travel writing, colonial history, postcolonial literature, and the cultures of slavery. He is also a specialist on Haiti and the Haitian Revolution and has written about representations of Toussaint Louverture. He was president of the Society for French Studies, 2012–14, and codirector of the Centre for the Study of International Slavery, 2010–13.
Aisha Khan is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, at New York University. She has conducted research in Honduras, Trinidad, Guyana, and Haiti and has published widely on Caribbean diasporas, religion, race, and creolization. She is the author of Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad (2004) and editor of Islam and the Americas (2015).
Hiram Maristany is a photographer born and raised in El Barrio, New York. He came of age in the 1960s, when young New York–born Puerto Ricans were asserting a new cultural-political identity inspired by the Cuban Revolution, the Chicago Young Lords, and the civil rights and Black Power movements. Maristany was...
