Contributors
- Contributors
Laura Rosanne Adderley is an associate professor of history at Tulane University, where she is also affiliated with the Africana Studies Program and the Stone Center for Latin American Studies. She is author of "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2006). Her current research includes a study of African-born soldiers who worked for British authorities in Havana during the era of slave trade suppression.
Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where he is completing his dissertation, "On Lyric's Minor Commons." He is the author of an afterword to a new edition of Jack Spicer's story The Wasps (2016). He is a coeditor, with Claire Marie Stancek, of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016), and, with Eric Sneathen, of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (2017).
Eddie Chambers teaches in the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1998. He is the author of Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s (2014) and Roots and Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain (2017).
Paul Emiljanowicz is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at McMaster University, finishing his dissertation on the tensions, ambiguities, and contestations between competing visions of Pan-Africanism and the "future" in 1960s anticolonial thought. His research is focused on the conceptualizations and politics of non-Western modernities, legacies of colonialisms, decoloniality, and questions of historiography. His work has appeared in Time and Society (2017) and Interventions (forthcoming).
Ada Ferrer is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University. She is author of the award-winning books Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898 (1999) and Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (2014). She is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, as well as a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
Honor Ford-Smith has worked at the intersection of performance and politics for decades. She is an associate professor of cultural and artistic practices for environmental and social justice, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. Her recent work comprises [End Page 229] a cycle of performances, including Letters from the Dead and Song for the Beloved. These honor those who fight against racialized human disposability and remember those who have died at the hands of state violence and the violence of armed strongmen.
Donette Francis directs the American Studies Program at the University of Miami, where she is also an associate professor of English and a founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (2010), and is currently working on two book projects: "Illegibilities: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form," an intellectual history of the anglophone Caribbean's transnational literary culture, 1940–70; and "Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City," a sociocultural history of black arts practice in Miami from 1980s to present.
Sara E. Johnson teaches in the Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego. She is the author of The Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas (2012), an interdisciplinary study that explores how people of African descent responded to the collapse and reconsolidation of colonial life in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution. She is currently completing a book on the Caribbean philosophe Moreau de Saint-Méry. She is a coeditor, with Vèvè Clark, of Kaiso! Writings by and about Katherine Dunham (2006), and, with Amalia Cabezas, Ivette N. Hernández Torres, and Rodrigo Lazo, of Una ventana a Cuba y los estudios cubanos (2010).
Rupert Lewis is a professor emeritus in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona. He is the author of Walter Rodney's Intellectual and Political Thought (1998) and Marcus Garvey (2018), and has...
