Haiti and the Americas

Contributors

231 Contributors Carla Calargé is assistant professor of French and Francophone studies in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (2006) and specializes in the Francophone novel of the Arab world. She is particularly interested in examining the various ways in which Francophone writers have expressed their opposition to the rise of religious radicalism in the Middle East and North Africa. She has published several articles on French and Francophone literature and cinema. Matthew Casey is assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is currently writing a social history of the individuals who circulated between their homes in rural Haiti and the eastern regions of Cuba during the first four decades of the twentieth century. In 2012 he was cowinner of the Andrés Ramos Mattei–Neville Hall prize, which was awarded by the Association of Caribbean Historians for best article in Caribbean history. Myriam J. A. Chancy, Ph.D., is a Haitian-born writer and scholar. Her first novel, Spirit of Haiti (Mango, 2003), was a finalist in the Best First Book Category, Canada/Caribbean region, of the Commonwealth Prize 2004. She is also the author of Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women (Rutgers, 1997), Searching for Safe Spaces: Afro-Caribbean Women Writers in Exile (Temple, 1997; Choice OAB Award, 1998), a second novel, The Scorpion’s Claw (Peepal Tree Press, 2005), and The Loneliness of Angels (Peepal Tree Press, 2010), winner of the 2011 Guyana Prize Caribbean Award for best fiction and shortlisted in the fiction category of the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2011. Her third academic work, From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions from Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, has just been published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press (2012). Her work as editor of Meridians (2002–4) garnered the CELJ Phoenix Award for Editorial Achievement in 2004. She currently sits on the editorial advisory board of PMLA, serves as a humanities adviser for the Fetzer Foundation, and is professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. Contributors 232 Bethany Aery Clerico is a visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. Her research focuses on representations of the Caribbean in U.S. writing. She has an article forthcoming in the Faulkner Journal , which identifies in Go Down, Moses a Caribbeanist imagination that developed in response to national discourses about the Good Neighbor policies. She is currently completing her book Caribbean Hauntings: Transnational Regionalism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature, which uncovers ghostly traces of a Caribbean presence in regional U.S. literature. Raphael Dalleo is associate professor of English at Florida Atlantic University . He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial (University of Virginia Press, 2011), a comparative literary history of the region. He is also coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), a study of the relationship of politics and the market to contemporary literature from the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora. His articles have appeared in journals such as Interventions, Postcolonial Text, Research in African Literatures, and Small Axe. J. Michael Dash, born in Trinidad, has worked extensively on Haitian literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Édouard Glissant, whose works The Ripening (1985), Caribbean Discourse (1989), and Monsieur Toussaint (2005) he has translated into English. He is professor of French at New York University, and his publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti (1981), Haiti and the United States (1988), Edouard Glissant (1995), and The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998). His most recent books are Libeté: A Haiti Anthology (1999) with Charles Arthur and Culture and Customs of Haiti (2001). Luis Duno-Gottberg is an associate professor at Rice University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean culture, with emphasis on race and ethnicity, politics, and violence. His work in progress, Dangerous People: Hegemony, Representation, and Culture in Contemporary Venezuela, explores the relationship between popular mobilization, radical politics, and culture. His translated and annotated edition of Estela (1853), the first Haitian novel, is forthcoming with Biblioteca Ayacucho. He is also the author of Solventar las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (2003) and Albert Camus: Naturaleza, Contributors 233 patria y exilio (1994). He is the editor of Miradas al margen: Cine y subalternidad en...