Contributors
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Alice Adamczyk served for over four decades as a librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division and the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division. She is the author of Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland, 1989) and played a major role in the compilation of The Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948–1986: From the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Carlson, 1992).
Margarita M. Castromán Soto is an assistant professor of English at Rice University. In her research and teaching, she focuses on twentieth- and twenty-firstcentury African American, Latino/a, and Caribbean literatures with a particular emphasis on critical race theory, archive theory, and digital culture. Her current book project, "Collecting Race: The Archival Impulse in Twentieth-Century Black Literature and Culture," explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black writers theorize Black archives as new ways of being, understanding, and recording the human. A recipient of the ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Castromán is also an ongoing Research Fellow for the Black Bibliography Project.
Melanie Chambliss is an assistant professor of history at Columbia College Chicago. She has forthcoming and recently published essays in the Journal of African American History and in the edited collection The Unfinished Book (Oxford UP, 2020). Her in-progress manuscript, "Saving the Race: Black Archives, Black Liberation, and the Remaking of Modernity," explores the founding and impact of early twentieth-century Black archives.
Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard UP, 2003), Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination (Harvard UP, 2017), and (in collaboration with Jean-Christophe Cloutier) the scholarly edition of Claude McKay's 1941 novel Amiable with Big Teeth (Penguin, 2017). Edwards is currently completing a book titled "Black Radicalism and the Archive," based on the 2015 Du Bois Lectures he presented at Harvard University.
Laura E. Helton is an assistant professor of English and history at the University of Delaware. A historian and archivist, she teaches African American print culture, archival studies, and public humanities. Her current book project, "Collecting and Collectivity: Black Archival Publics," traces the making of African American archives and libraries to show how historical recuperation shaped forms of racial imagination in the early twentieth century. She has published essays on Black librarians and bibliographers in PMLA and in the edited collections Against a Sharp White Background: Infrastructures of African American Print (U of Wisconsin P, 2019) and African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 (Cambridge UP, 2021). She was a National Endowment for the Humanities/Mellon Foundation Fellow in the Scholars-in-Residence Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2019–2020.
Adalaine Holton teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century U. S. literature and culture, and her research interests include comparative U. S. ethnic studies, African diaspora literature and culture, and archive studies. Her current project is a study of the production, use, and dissemination of archival materials in Black literary and historical writing during the early twentieth century. She has previously published in MELUS, Arizona Quarterly, and the Journal of African American History. She also directs Stockton University's Why the Humanities Matter Institute for Teachers, a collaborative, interdisciplinary professional development program for southern New Jersey English language arts and social studies teachers.
Miranda Mims is currently the Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester. She is the cofounder of the Nomadic Archivist Project (NAP), an archival initiative devoted to developing relationships and beginning conversations around legacy, memory, connection, and trust in the African diaspora. Miranda is the author of the essay "Archival-Futurism: Archives as Social Justice" and coauthor of the chapter "Getting out of the Archive: Building Positive Community Partnerships and Strong Social Justice Collections." She is coediting the forthcoming anthology The Evidence: Black Archivists Holding Memory, which will explore the archival experience across the global Black world.
Alexsandra Mitchell is the manager of education and public programs at the California African American...
