Contributors

268 CLA JOURNAL CONTRIBUTORS Carlyn E. Ferrari is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University where she teaches courses on African American literature and culture. She earned her Ph.D. in AfroAmerican Studies from University of Massachusetts Amherst and is currently working on her manuscript entitled, “Do Not Separate Her from Her Garden: Anne Spencer’s Ecopoetics.” Cassandra L. Jones is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati and member of the Octavia Butler Legacy Network. Her research on Afrofuturism and black feminist thought has been published in Frontiers and Women’s Studies. She recently contributed to Afterwords: Octavia E. Butler, a BBC radio documentary about the author’s prescient writing and enduring importance. She is currently working on a monograph on memory and liberation in black women’s speculative fiction. Arthur Saint-Aubin is Professor of French at Occidental College. He is the author of The Memoirs of Toussaint and Isaac Louverture: Representing the Black Masculine Subject in Narratives of Mourning and Loss (2015). His essays have appeared in several journals, including The Journal of Haitian Studies, The French Review, and Callaloo. Rachel Watson is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Howard University. Her work has appeared in Critical Inquiry, Post45, Mississippi Quarterly, Obsidian, Sonora Review, and the edited collection Faulkner and Mystery. She is currently working on a book that considers the legal and political significance of crime fiction written during the era of Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement, in support of which she received and NEH Award for Faculty 2017-18. Christopher A. Varlack is Lecturer at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he teaches within the Individualized Study Program as well as the Honors College. He is the editor of Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance (2015) and Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature, Past and Present (2017). He is also the current president of the Langston Hughes Society. ...