Contributors
- Contributors
Nathalie Batraville is a postdoctoral fellow with the Society of Fellows at Dartmouth College. She researches cultural formations and history, with a focus on black feminist and queer theory, race, class, and anticolonialism. Her new project theorizes black feminisms across the French Atlantic. She is also working on a monograph that explores how artists, intellectuals, and militants in Haiti during the 1960s conceptualized black liberation and revolution while struggling against global capitalism under the US-backed regime of François Duvalier.
Celia Britton is Emeritus Professor at University College London. She has published widely on French Caribbean writers. Her books include Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance (1999), The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction (2011), and Language and Literary Form in French Caribbean Writing (2014). She is a fellow of the British Academy.
Dominique Chancé has been professor of literature at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne since 2000. She teaches general and francophone literature and her research is focused on the Caribbean.
Louis Chude-Sokei is a professor of English and the George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American Studies (which he also directs) at Boston University. His work includes The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black on Black Minstrelsy and the African Diaspora (2006); The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics (2016); Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber, and Other Essays (forthcoming, Wesleyan); and a memoir to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He is the editor of The Black Scholar.
Lyndon K. Gill is an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He has received research fellowships from Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Ford Foundation. His first book, Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean, is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Justin Izzo is an assistant professor of French studies at Brown University. His first book, Experiments with Empire: Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. He has current and forthcoming essays in Research in African Literatures, Small Axe, and African Studies Review, and a chapter in the forthcoming A Companion to African Cinema (Wiley-Blackwell). [End Page 191]
Tsitsi Ella Jaji is an associate professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity (2017), which traces how exchanges between African American, Ghanaian, Senegalese, and South African artists shaped cultural and political liberation projects. It received the African Literature Association's First Book Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook Carnaval (2014) and the poetry collection Beating the Graves (2017).
Christina Kullberg is an associate professor of French literatures at Uppsala University, where she specializes in contemporary Caribbean literature and early modern travelogues. Her publications include The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives (2013) and, most recently, "Figurations de l'étranger: Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François," now under review. Her current project interrogates the inclusion of other languages and voices in the works of French seventeenth-century travelers. She is part of the research program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures (www.worldlit.se).
Wayne Marshall is an assistant professor of music history at Berklee College of Music, Boston. An ethnomusicologist by training, he researches the interplay between sound reproduction technologies, popular media, and musical publics, with a focus on the intertwined histories of hip-hop and reggae. He coedited Reggaeton (2009) and complements his academic work with music criticism for magazines and by releasing research-related mashups and mixes on his blog, wayne&wax.
Chris Moffat is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. He writes on the history of political thought, public history, and the anthropology of history, with a particular focus on India and Pakistan. He has volunteered with the George Padmore Institute, London, since 2012.
Jennifer L. Morgan is a professor of history in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department...
