Contributors
- Contributors
La Vaughn Belle (whose images appear on the cover of this issue) is an artist whose work is dedicated to making visible the unremembered. She works in a variety of disciplines that include painting, installation, photography, video, and public interventions. Borrowing from elements of architecture, history, and archaeology, she explores the material culture of coloniality, and her art presents countervisualities and counternarratives that challenge colonial hierarchies and invisibility. Her work has been exhibited in the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (New York), Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), and Christiansborg Palace (Denmark). She holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, and an MA and a BA from Columbia University, New York. Currently, she is a fellow at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Research Center for Women at Columbia University. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.
Raj Chetty is an assistant professor of black literature and culture in the English and Comparative Literature Department at San Diego State University, specializing in Caribbean literature across English, Spanish, and French, with a focus on the black diaspora. With Amaury Rodríguez, he is the coeditor of “Dominican Black Studies,” a special issue of The Black Scholar (2015), and his work has appeared in Callaloo, Palimpsest, and Afro-Hispanic Review.
Shanya Cordis, who is black/Warau and Lokono, is an assistant professor of sociocultural anthropology at Spelman College. She works at the intersections of indigenous and black studies, examining black and indigenous political subjectivities and social movements, gendered violence, and critical feminist geographies. Her book-in-progress, tentatively titled “Unsettling Geographies: Antiblackness, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Dispossession in Guyana,” is a feminist ethnography of indigenous land dispossession, antiblackness, and gendered racial violence in Guyana.
Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at Fordham University. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007), a book on high art and queer Latinx popular culture in the gentrifying New York of the 1980s, and El primitivo implorante (1994), a study of the prose fiction of José Lezama Lima, and a coeditor of Queer Globalization: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (2002).
Ronald Cummings teaches queer and postcolonial literatures at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. His work has been published in the Journal of West Indian Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Small Axe, and Transforming Anthropology. His research focuses on the field of critical Maroon studies. Along with Nalini Mohabir, he is working on a book project that considers the genre of the long interview as critical and narrative method in Caribbean studies.
Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez is an assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington. She is a critical and creative writer whose scholarly work engages discursive and cultural transactions among Latin American, Caribbean, and Latin@communities around the globe. Her reviews, articles, and translations have appeared in The Black Scholar, Callaloo, Antípodas, Cua.dri.vi.um, Discourse, and Cuadernos del CILHA (Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios de Hispanoamérica). Currently, she distributes her time as an independent consultant editor, translator, and educator.
Jason Frydman is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Brooklyn College and the former director of the Caribbean Studies Interdisciplinary Program there. He is the author of Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature (2014). His current research explores the cultural history of the Cold War in the Caribbean.
Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019).
José Lezama Lima (1910–1976) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and essayist, often considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature. His collections of poems include Muerte de Narciso (1937), Enemigo rumor (1941), Aventuras sigilosas (1945), La fijeza (1949), Dador (1960), and Fragmentos a su im...
