Contributors
- Contributors
Alex Benson is assistant professor of literature and American studies at Bard College. His current work includes a book manuscript on the problem of ethnographic transcription in American literatures from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Alejandra Bronfman is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia, before which she taught at the University of Florida and Yale University. She recently completed a book project titled Isles of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), which aims to record the unwritten histories of broadcasting and related technologies in the Caribbean. Future and past research interests include histories of race, the production of knowledge, and the materiality of media and its archives and infrastructures.
Nijah Cunningham is assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. He earned his doctorate in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, where his research focused on African American and African diasporic literatures. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled “Quiet Dawn” that considers the “afterlives” of black radical politics and the nascent worlds that emerge from the expectation and nonarrival of black freedom and anticolonial revolution. He is the coordinator of the Small Axe Project.
Celeste Fraser Delgado is professor of English and humanities at Barry University. She has chronicled Miami’s arts scene for more than fifteen years, in popular and academic publications. She is coeditor of Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America and author of the forthcoming book We Never Asked for Carnival: Celebrating Life in a Time of Crisis about the arts program she founded for youth living in crisis shelters in Florida.
Demetrius L. Eudell is professor of history at Wesleyan University, where he specializes in nineteenth-century US history, intellectual history, and the history of blacks in the Americas. In addition to a number of essays and articles on black intellectual and cultural history, he is also the author of The Political Languages of Emancipation in the British Caribbean and the US South (2002) and coeditor, with Carolyn Allen, of “Sylvia Wynter: A Transculturalist Rethinking Modernity” (2001), a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature.
Tonya Haynes teaches at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. She researches in the areas of Caribbean feminist thought, cyberfeminisms, and gender-based violence. Her creative and scholarly work [End Page 194] appears in Global Public Health, the Caribbean Writer, Anthurium, and the edited collection Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender (2012).
Kate Hodgson is lecturer in French at University College Cork, Ireland. She is coeditor of At the Limits of Memory: Legacies of Slavery in the Francophone World (2015) and has published on Haiti and state memorialization, slavery, and abolition in Paragraph, Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Francophone Postcolonial Studies.
Aaron Kamugisha is a senior lecturer in cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. He is currently at work on a study of coloniality, citizenship, and freedom in the contemporary anglophone Caribbean, mediated through the social and political thought of C. L. R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is the author of a number of essays and the editor of Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013), and (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013).
Matthew McCarthy is a Jamaica-based illustrator and mural painter who has spent the last five years indulging his obsession with Jamaican street signs, old-school dancehall illustrations, and global street art movements through an art practice that engages and challenges the traditional art institution. After his graduation from the Edna Manley College of Visual Art in 2013, he was part of New Roots (2013) at the National Gallery of Jamaica, an exhibition of ten emerging artists, and has been a key figure in the development of street art in Jamaica, via first the Paint Jamaica project and later the Paint Jamaica initiative...
