Contributors
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JOAN ANIM-ADDO, who was born in Grenada in the Caribbean, is a professor of Caribbean literature and culture and Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also teaches courses in other African Diaspora literatures and cultures. She is the founding editor of Mango Season, the journal of Caribbean women's writing. Her publications include Touching the Body: History, Language, & African Caribbean Women's Writing, Framing the Word: Gender and Genre, and other critical books in the field as well as volumes of her creative writing, Imoinda, Haunted by History, and Janie, Cricketing Lady. She is co-editor of I Am Black, White, Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe, Interculturality and Gender, and Affects and Creolisation, a special issue of The Feminist Review.
MARTA FERNÁNDEZ CAMPA is a Senior Research Associate at the University of East Anglia, currently working on the Leverhulme research project Caribbean Literary Heritage. Her research focuses on literary archives and critical engagements with archival documents and histories in contemporary Caribbean literature and visual culture. She has published articles in such journals as Anthurium, Arc, Caribbean Beat, Comma: International Journal on Archives, and Small Axe. She has also held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami.
DENNIS CHILDS is author of Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary (2015). As a scholar-activist, he has worked with various prison abolitionist and social justice organizations including All of Us or None, the Chicano-Mexicano Prison Project (CMPP), Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI UCSD), and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He currently serves as a Community Advisory Board Member for Critical Resistance, a national organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex. He is Associate Professor of African American literature, and an affiliate faculty member of Ethnic Studies and African American studies at the University of California, San Diego.
JESSE A. GOLDBERG earned his PhD from Cornell University, where he was an instructor with the Cornell Prison Education Program, before joining Longwood University as Visiting Assistant Professor of English. His writing appears or is forthcoming in Public Culture, MELUS, CLA Journal, The Feminist Wire, and the edited volumes Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print, Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons, and Toni Morrison on Mothers and Motherhood. He is currently at work on a manuscript titled Abolition Time: Slavery's Afterlife and the Excessive Present in Law, Literature, and Performance.
LUBAINA HIMID, MBE, who was born in Zanzibar, won the 2017 Turner Prize. She studied theater design at Wimbledon College of Art, where she received the BA, and she received an MA degree in cultural history at London's Royal College of Art. As a curator, she has mounted such exhibitions as State of the Art (1987), New Robes for MaShulan (1987), Out There Fighting (1987), Unrecorded Truths (1986), Thin Black Line (1985), Into the Open (1984), and Five Black Women (1983). Her artworks have been exhibited in group and solo [End Page 220] exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom (some of the most important being Navigation Charts at Spike Island in Bristol, Lubaina Himid: Invisible Strategies at Modern Art in Oxford, and the group show, The Place Is Here at the Nottingham Contemporary), and internationally in museums and galleries in New York City, Bergan (Norway), Los Angeles, Havana (Cuba), Vienna, and elsewhere, including Art Basel. In June 2010, she was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honors. Lubaina Himid is professor of contemporary art at the Central University of Lancashire in northern England.
STEPHANIE IASIELLO earned the PhD in English from Emory University. She is an instructor and President of the Board of Directors for Reforming Arts, a non-profit organization that provides a theater-infused liberal arts higher education to people who are under carceral control in Georgia.
JULIE IROMUANYA is the author of the novel Mr. and Mrs. Doctor (Coffee House Press), a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for Debut...
