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A pioneering scholar of African Canadian literature, George Elliott Clarke is the E. J. Pratt Professor of Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. Formerly at Duke University, he has also taught at McGill University, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard University. A significant poet, his awards include the Trudeau Fellows Prize, the Governor-General's Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award (U. S.), and the Premiul Poesis (Romania).

Ana María Fraile-Marcos is an associate professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain, where she teaches English Canadian and postcolonial literatures, and is the director of the Master in creative writing. She has been a visiting professor in various universities in Europe, the U. S., and Canada. Her research focuses on African American and Black Canadian literatures and her publications include Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary (Routledge, 2014), Planteamientos estéticos y políticos en la obra de Zora Neale Hurston (U de València, 2003), Richard Wright's Native Son, ed. (Rodopi, 2007), and numerous chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is the principal investigator of the research project "Narratives of Resilience: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Other Cultural Representations" (FFI2015-63895-C2-2-R).

Miasol Eguíbar Holgado holds a degree in English philology from the University of Oviedo, Spain. In 2011, she earned a Masters in Philosophy on American literatures from Trinity College, Dublin, and she was awarded her Ph.D. in 2015 from the University of Oviedo, where she currently works as lecturer in English. Her research focuses on the study of diasporas in contemporary Canadian literature, particularly on the Scottish- and African-settled diasporas of Nova Scotia.

Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins is a full professor of English at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). She has published Antologia de Poesia Norte-Americana Contemporânea (translator; 1997), Duas Artes: Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Elizabeth Bishop (2008), and Poesia Canadense Contemporânea e Multiculturalismo (2018).

Maureen Moynagh teaches postcolonial literature and theory at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She has published extensively on African Canadian literature in journals such as Canadian Literature, Signs, Comparative American Studies, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her books include African-Canadian Theatre (Playwrights Canada, 2005), Political Tourism and Its Texts (U of Toronto P, 2008), and (co-edited with Nancy Forestell) Documenting First Wave Feminisms, Vol I: Transnational Collaborations and Crosscurrents (U of Toronto P, 2012).

Jacob A. C. Remes is a clinical assistant professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, where he studies and teaches North American history with a focus on urban disasters, working-class organizations, and migration. His book, Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era (U of Illinois P, 2016) examines the overlapping responses of individuals, families, civil society, and the state to the Salem, Massachusetts fire of 1914 and the Halifax, Nova Scotia explosion of 1917. [End Page 251]

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