Contributors
- Contributors
Gabrielle Bellot grew up in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Guernica, VIDA, Lambda Literary, the Normal School, the Huffington Post, the Toast, the Caribbean Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is a doctoral candidate in fiction at Florida State University, where she is working on her first novel.
Kuan-Hsing Chen is a coexecutive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements and a professor in the Institute for Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His recent publications include Asia as Method: Towards Deimperialization (2010). He has been involved in organizing West Heaven: India-China Intellectual Dialogues (2010–), Asian Circle of Thought Forum (2012), Modern Asian Thought (2012–), and the Bandung/Third World Sixty Years series (2015).
Louis Chude-Sokei is a scholar and writer who currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. His scholarly work includes the award-winning book The Last Darky: Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (2006) and the recently published The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2015). He is the editor in chief of The Black Scholar.
Lowell Fiet was educated at the University of Wisconsin and has taught at the University of Puerto Rico–Río Piedras since 1978. His dozens of reviews, articles, and books focus on Caribbean and Puerto Rican theater, drama, and performance. He is the founding editor of Sargasso, and for many years he coordinated the UPR–Río Piedras PhD program in Caribbean literature and linguistics and now directs the university’s Institute of Caribbean Studies. His current work focuses on festival and carnival masks.
Obika Gray is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is a graduate of Long Island University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned his doctorate in political science. He has published widely on Jamaican politics and is the author of Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960–1972 (1991) and Demeaned but Empowered: The Social Power of the Urban Poor in Jamaica (2004).
Barnor Hesse teaches in the Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University. He is the editor of Un/Settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions (2000) and the author of Creolizing the Political: Western Lineages of Raceocracy, forthcoming from Duke University Press. [End Page 199]
Sean Jacobs is an associate professor of international affairs at the New School in New York. He is the founder and chief editor of the media and analysis site Africa Is a Country. His work focuses on the intersection of politics and popular culture. He is a native of Cape Town, South Africa.
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel is an assistant professor of French and faculty affiliate in Africana studies at the University of Arizona. Her areas of research specialization include contemporary Caribbean literatures, cultural movements of the African diaspora, and the Enlightenment in the French Atlantic world. Her work has appeared in Slavery and Abolition, the French Review, and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.
Kelly Baker Josephs is an associate professor of English at York College, CUNY. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2013), editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform, and manager of The Caribbean Commons website. Her current project, “Caribbean Articulations: Storytelling in a Digital Age,” explores the intersections between new technologies and Caribbean cultural production.
Daisy Holder Lafond was born in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and has lived in New York, Trinidad and Tobago, and Toronto, Canada, where she studied creative writing and magazine journalism. A former newspaper editor, columnist, and magazine owner/publisher, with her work appearing in various publications, she also coauthored All This Is Love—A Collection of Virgin Islands Poetry, Art, and Prose (2009). In 2012 she received the Caribbean Writer’s Marguerite Cobb McKay Prize. A mother and grandmother, she now lives on St. Croix, US...
