Contributors
- Contributors
Bedour Alagraa is an assistant professor of political and social thought in the Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been published in several journals, including Critical Ethnic Studies, Contemporary Political Theory, and the CLR James Journal. She is a coeditor (with Anthony Bogues) of the Black Critique book series at Pluto Press and is currently working on a book manuscript, "The Interminable Catastrophe: Fatal Liberalisms, Plantation Logics, and Black Political Life in the Wake of Disaster."
David Austin teaches in the Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion Department at John Abbott College and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada in Montreal. He is the author of Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal (2013), winner of the 2014 Casa de las Américas Prize, and Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution (2018); and the editor of You Don't Play with Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C. L. R. James (2009) and Moving Against the System: The Congress of Black Writers and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (2018).
Robert Charlotte (whose work also appears on the covers of this issue) lives and works in Martinique. He studied in Paris (1986–89) and lived there for ten years, working in a photography studio where he refined his skills. Back in Martinique, he became interested in painting and painters, and this influence inspires his photographic work where, approaching the abstract or the figurative, he explores an increasingly pictorial form of photographic expression that powerfully expresses the collective history of places and individual trajectories, especially in the Caribbean. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and publications (robertcharlotte.wixsite.com/robertcharlotte00).
Matthew Chin is an assistant professor in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD in anthropology and social work from the University of Michigan and is currently conducting a historical ethnography on the transnational politics of same-gender intimacy in late-twentieth-century Jamaica.
Ronald Cummings is an associate professor in the department of English at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. His work has been published in Small Axe, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, the Journal of West Indian Literature, and Transforming Anthropology. He is the coeditor (with Alison Donnell) of Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 (forthcoming) and the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (forthcoming).
Donette Francis directs the American Studies Program at the University of Miami, where she is 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). She 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 the 1980s to the present.
Carlos Garrido Castellano is a lecturer of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American studies at University College, Cork. He is the author of Beyond Representation in Contemporary Caribbean Art: Space, Politics, and the Public Sphere (2019) and Art Activism for an Anticolonial Feature (forthcoming). He is currently working on a monograph about literary fictions of neoliberal art worlds.
Tao Leigh Goffe is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. Her interdisciplinary research examines the entanglement of black capital and Chinese debt. Her praxis is invested in unfolding the relationality between ecology, infrastructure, and the senses through deejaying and sound design. Her essays have been published in Women and Performance, the Boston Review, and the Amerasia Journal. She is a founding coeditor of the Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies.
Peter James Hudson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the...
