Presenters
Emiel Martens
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Alexsandra Mitchell
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Kaiama L. Glover
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Rodolphe Solbiac
Université des Antilles Schoelcher Bio |
Rodolphe Solbiac is Associate-Professor at the Université des Antilles Schoelcher, Martinique. His field of research is Caribbean literature in English with a focus on Caribbean-Canadian writers. He is the author of three books, Neil Bissoondath : Migration et Multiculturalisme dans l’OEuvre, (Paris; l’Harmattan, 2009), Filiations, émergences et diaspora : aspects de l’écriture caribéenne anglophone des années 1980 et 1990, (Presses de l'Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, 2011) and Emergence d’une identité caribéenne canadienne anglophone, (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2015). He also co-edited Critical Perspectives on Conflict in Caribbean Societies of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015 and of L’esclavage de l’Africain du 16e au 19e siècle (Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2011). He has published several articles on Caribbean literature in English. His recent publications include “Revising Female Indian Memory: Ramabai Espinet’s Construction of an Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora in The Swinging Bridge” in Joy Mahabir, Mariam Pirbhai, eds., Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature, New York, Routledge, 2013. Abstract Title | Archiving of the Caribbean Diaspora in Austin Clarke’s Fiction of the 2000 Decade |
Amorella Lamount
College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) Bio |
Amorella Lamount holds a PhD from the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Reading, Berkshire (United Kingdom). Her thesis premises localised cultural paradigms as methodology for reading Anglophone Caribbean writing. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Humanities & Aesthetics (Faculty of Education) at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE). A 2009 Commonwealth Scholar, she has published in the Journal of West Indian Literature Abstracts Title | Politicised Archives: Re-visiting Nanny’s Saga |
Carolyn Cooper
University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) Bio |
Carolyn Cooper is the author of two influential academic books, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) and Noises In the Blood: Orality, Gender and the ‘Vulgar’ Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993). She is the editor of the award-winning book of essays Global Reggae (2008). She writes an engaging weekly column for the Jamaica Gleaner and blogs carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com Abstract Title | “‘Mek Wi Talk Bout Di Bottom Of Di Sea’: Submerged Narratives in Caribbean Literature and Popular Culture” |
Shanaaz Mohammed
Florida State University Bio |
Shanaaz Mohammed is a Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University (FSU), working in the field of Francophone Caribbean literature. Her research focuses on literary representations of the East Indian diaspora in the French Caribbean. She has presented her work at several conferences, including those hosted by the Department of French and Italian at the University of Kansas (2016), Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies (2015), Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (2014), Caribbean Studies Association (2014), and Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2013). Abstract Title | Landscape as Archive: Locating the East Indian Diaspora in French Caribbean History in selected poetry from Ernest Moutoussamy’s Cicatric |
Margaret Grace Love
Tufts University Bio |
Margaret Grace Love is a doctorate candidate in English at Tufts University and teaches writing in Boston, MA. She completed her bachelor's degree at Rhodes College and her master’s at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include postcolonial Caribbean literature, narrative theory, and writing pedagogy. Abstract Title | "My Map, my compass" - Reframing the Caribbean Archive in Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven |
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The Media School at Indiana University |
Terri Francis
Indiana University Bio |
Terri Francis (University of Chicago 2004, English) researches independent, experimental, and nontheatrical forms of African American and Caribbean cinema. Her articles have been published with Black Camera, Film Quarterly, and Film History. Currently, Professor Francis is a member of the Cinema and Media Studies faculty of the Media School at Indiana University. Abstract Title | Double Exposures: Eyeballing, Framing the Archives, and Thomas Edison’s Caribbean Films |
Isis Semaj-Hall
University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) Bio |
Isis Semaj-Hall is a Jamaican-born scholar of Caribbean and African diasporic literature and cultural expression. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park (USA). She has taught literature courses at University of Maryland and American University in Washington, D.C. Her interests include sound studies, remix studies, decolonial discourse, postcolonial theory, and digital media. Using what she terms an aesthetically dub approach, her innovative interdisciplinary research connects literature, music, and popular culture. Lately she has published in SX Salon, she blogs at "write pon di riddim," and she is carrying out research for her book manuscript titled On the B-Side: Dub, Disruptions, and the Decolonial in Contemporary Caribbean Literature." Abstract Title | “Caribbean Buzz Feed: Four Ways to Read a Night Woman” |
Simone A. James Alexander
Seton Hall University Bio |
Simone A. James Alexander is Professor of English and Africana Studies and Director of Africana Studies at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. She was the immediate past Chair of the Department of Africana Studies. Alexander was named Researcher of the Year by the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University (2016). Professor Alexander is author of the award-winning book African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival and Citizenship (University of Florida Press, 2014). In addition to being the recipient of the 2015 College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award, African Diasporic Women’s Narratives received honorary mention by the African Literature Association Book of the Year Scholarship Award (2016). The book has been reprinted in paperback in May 2016. Professor Alexander is also the author of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women (University of Missouri Press, 2001) and co-editor of Feminist & Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering (Africa World Press, 2013). Her articles appeared in African American Review, Anglistica, New Mango Season: A Journal of Caribbean Women’s Writing, Revista Review InterAmericana, African Literature Association Bulletin, and edited collections. Professor Alexander’s current projects include Black Freedom in (Communist) Russia: Great Expectations, Utopian Visions and Bodies of (In)Difference: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationhood. Abstract Title | Violence and Memory: The Black Body as Archive |
Laurie Lambert
University of California Bio |
Laurie Lambert is Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis where her research and teaching interests include African Diaspora Studies, Caribbean literature and cultural history, postcolonial studies, and freedom and slavery studies. Lambert was the 2014-2015 Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University. She is completing her first manuscript “Surviving Empire: Postcolonial Revolution and Trauma in the Caribbean,” a literary and historical analysis of the Grenada Revolution and U.S. imperialism in the region. Abstract Title | "An Aftermath Without End": Archival Insecurities in Post-Revolutionary Grenada |
Natasha Nicole Walker
Georgia State University Bio |
Natasha Nicole Walker is Jamaican-American doctoral candidate at Georgia State University with a M.A. from Georgia State University and a B.A. from Clark Atlanta University. She is also a Professor of English and the Director of the Morehouse English Multimedia Writing Skills Lab at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Her studies focus on literature of the diaspora with an eye towards spirituality and negritude. She also has contributed to an upcoming book on James Baldwin and black identity. Abstract Title | Destroying the Single Story with Likes and Shares: Social Media and Home |
Annie Paul
University of the West Indies Bio |
Annie Paul is a writer and critic based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she is head of the Publications Section at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Author of a weekly column in the Jamaica Gleaner and Editor of the book Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite Paul is the recipient of a grant from the Prince Claus Fund (Netherlands). She is a founding editor of the journal Small Axe and the original Caribbean Review of Books; and has been published in international journals and magazines such as Newsweek, the Guardian (UK), Chimurenga, The Caravan(India), Slavery & Abolition, Art Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly, Wasafiri, Callaloo, and Bomb. Paul is author of the blog Active Voice (anniepaul.net). You can follow her on Twitter @anniepaul Abstract Title | Archiving the Creole: Instituting Difference |
Paula Morgan
University of the West Indies Bio |
Paula Morgan is Professor of West Indian Literature and Culture UWI St Augustine. Her primary focus of teaching and research has been gender and trauma in Caribbean literature and culture. She has published numerous articles on the domestic violence, the interface of ethnic and gender relations, the construction of Caribbean masculinities, disabilities studies and pedagogical approaches to literary and popular discourses. She has written, edited and / or collaborated on five book length publications including: The Arc of Memory in the Aftermath of Trauma (Edited collection - Interdisciplinary Press UK 2015); The Terror and the Time: Banal Violence and Trauma in Caribbean Discourse (UWI Press 2014); Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence in Caribbean Discourse –co-authored with Valerie Youssef (UWI Press Award 2008). Abstract Title | Place as Archive: Spatializing Trauma in Caribbean Discourse |
Rachel Douglas
University of Glasgow Bio |
Rachel Douglas is Lecturer in French at the University of Glasgow. She is author of Frankétienne and Rewriting: A Work in Progress (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), and is currently completing a monograph on C.L.R. James, provisionally entitled Making and Remaking “The Black Jacobins”. Work to date has focused on Haitian literature, literature about Haiti by writers from other parts of the Caribbean, questions of rewriting, autotranslation and the literary in postcolonial contexts. She has received awards and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy and the Carnegie Trust. Current projects include work on resilience and Haitian archives especially in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. Abstract Title | Archival Fault Lines in Haitian Literature |
Alejandra Bronfman
University of British Columbia Bio |
Alejandra Bronfman (PhD Princeton University, 2000) is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UBC. Prior to this, she was Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and Yale University. Her current research aims to record the unwritten histories of radio and related sonic technologies in the Caribbean. Islands of Noise: Sonic Media in the Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, Fall 2016) explores the perambulations of objects in empires in the early twentieth century, with particular attention to new media including telegraph, telephone and broadcasting and their relationships to capital flows, imperial projects and regional political mobilizations. She is the author of Measures of Equality: Race, Social Science and Citizenship in the Caribbean (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), On the Move: The Caribbean Since 1989 (Zed Books, 2007), and co-editor of Media, Sound and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012). Abstract Title | The Archivist and the Poet: Louise Bennett and the Sound of the Folk |
Bénédicte Ledent
University of Liège Bio |
Bénédicte Ledent teaches at the University of Liège (Belgium). She is the author of several articles on Caryl Phillips, and other contemporary writers of the Caribbean or African diaspora. She has edited several collections of essays, among which Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life, in collaboration with Daria Tunca, and The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities, with Maria Cristina Fumagalli and Robert del Valle Alcala. Abstract Title | Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River and the chorus of archival memory |
Keja Valens
Salem State University Bio |
Keja Valens is Professor of English at Salem State University where she teaches and researches literatures of the Americas and queer theory. Her recent publications include Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature (Palgrave, 2013), The Barbara Johnson Reader(Duke, 2014), essays on Caribbean and African American literature in Contemporary Women Writers and African American Review, and a chapter on “Excruciating Impossibility and the Transgender Jamaican” in Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/Homo Normativities (Rutgers, 2016). Abstract Title | Accessing Cuban Food Archives, Archiving Access to Food in Cuba, 1857-2016 |
James Cantres
University of New York Bio |
James Cantres is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies at Hunter College in the City University of New York. He holds a PhD in History from New York University. His scholarly interests include Caribbean intellectual history and the history of black peoples in Great Britain. Cantres is currently at work on a manuscript detailing the social and political histories of community formation, race consciousness, anti-imperialism, and the quandary of multiculturalism among West Indian migrants in London in the decades following World War II. He has particular interests in the oral transmission of knowledge through African diasporic music (hip hop and reggae), traditions of spirituality (Ethiopianism and Rastafari), and the mutability of networks and pathways of black Atlantic interconnections. Abstract Title | “Caribbean Oral Tradition and the Making of a Diasporic Archive in Donald Hinds’s Journey to an Illusion” |
Jo Anne Harris
Georgia Gwinnett College Bio |
Jo Anne Harris is an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. She holds a PhD in Language and Literatures of the Anglophone Caribbean from the University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras. Her research focuses on literary and digital representations of people and cultures in the Caribbean. Her ongoing project is the Virtual Caribbean: A Common Place in Cyberspace, a student mediated portal site developed in collaboration with the Library and the Center for Teaching Excellence at Georgia Gwinnett College. Abstract Title | |
Adrienne Button Harmer
Georgia Gwinnett College Bio |
Adrienne Button Harmer is the Instruction Coordinator and Assistant Department Head of Research Services at Georgia Gwinnett College Library. She holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida. Her current interests include developing programs to support the success of first year college students and the promotion of critical information literacy skills. Abstract Title | |
Rolando Márquez
Georgia Gwinnett College Bio |
Rolando Márquez is the Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching Excellence at Georgia Gwinnett College. Roy holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Central Florida. His current interests include looking at the relationship between the choice of instructional technology and media, design of learning environments and student achievement. Abstract Title | |
Andrea Shaw Nevins
Nova Southeastern University Bio |
Andrea Shaw Nevins is chair of the Department of History and Political Science and professor of English at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. She is a creative writer and a scholar of Caribbean and African Diaspora studies and author of The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies. Her forthcoming book tentatively titled “Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic” is under contract from the University of Georgia Press for publication in 2017. Her creative and scholarly writing have been published in numerous journals, including Small Axe, World Literature Today, MaComére, The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Feminist Media Studies, and Social Semiotics. She graduated from the University of Miami with a Ph.D. in English and from Florida International University with an M.F.A in creative writing. Abstract Title | Archiving of the Future: An Exploration of the Works of Caribbean Sci-fi Writer Tobias Buckell |
Antonia MacDonald
St. George’s University Bio |
Antonia MacDonald is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences, St. George’s University, Grenada. Dr. MacDonald writes on contemporary Caribbean women writers, St. Lucian literature and Eastern Caribbean popular culture. She has published articles in Anthurium, Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL), Callaloo and MaComere and is the author of Making Homes in the West/Indies (Garland, 2002). Abstract Title | “Drawing Lines in the Ashes of that Fire”: Archiving the Literary Contribution of Michelle Cliff. |
Patricia Saunders
University of Miami Bio |
Patricia Saunders is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is also the Senior Editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal, an open access peer reviewed journal. Her book publications include Alienation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). She is also the co-editor of Music. Memory. Resistance: Calypso and the Literary Imagination (Ian Randle Press, 2007). Her current scholarship focuses on consumer culture and the production of the Caribbean region in films, hip-hop and dancehall music, visual art and “sista-girl” literature. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe, Plantation Society in the Americas, the Bucknell Review, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies and Feminist Studies. She is completing a manuscript entitled Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture that is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press. Abstract Title | |
Amy K. King
Georgia Institute of Technology Bio |
Amy K. King is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her current book project places depictions of women at the center of her inquiry to interrogate women’s involvement in empires throughout the "New World." King argues that a substantial number of recent written and visual texts employ depictions of violence between women in the Caribbean and U.S. to illuminate grotesquely violent cultural norms enacted on and continuing beyond the setting of the plantation. Portions of this work appear in the edited collection Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing (Demeter Press 2015) and in a forthcoming issue of Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. King also has two essays forthcoming in Mississippi Quarterly and south: a scholarly journal that reconsider comparative methodologies for hemispheric American studies. Abstract Title | |
Rosamond S. King
Brooklyn College Bio |
Rosamond S. King, Ph.D. is a critical and creative writer and performer whose scholarly work focuses on sexuality, performance, and literature. Her book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination received the 2015 Caribbean Studies Association best book award. King is currently researching 19th century women’s protest and carnival performances. Awards include a Fulbright and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson, Mellon and Ford Foundations, Poets House and the Franklin Furnace Fund. King’s performance art has been curated in venues including the Encuentro Festival (Montreal), the African Performance Art Biennial (Harare), and Rich Mix (London), as well as the Metropolitan Museum, Dixon Place, and Movement Research @ Judson Church (all NYC). Her poetry has been published in more than two dozen journals and anthologies and is forthcoming in Rock|Salt|Stone (Nightboat Books). She is an Associate Professor at Brooklyn College. Abstract Title | The Invisible Archive? Looking for the stories of 19th c. Afro-Trinidadian Women |
Charles Carnegie
Bates College Bio |
Charles Carnegie is Professor of Anthropology at Bates College. He is the author ofPostnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands (Rutgers University Press, 2002), and editor of Afro-Caribbean Villages in Historical Perspective (African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica, 1987). His essays have appeared in various scholarly journals including New West Indian Guide, Cultural Anthropology, and Small Axe. He is currently working on pioneering rural community development efforts in Jamaica and the beginnings of colonial social science research in the English-speaking Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s, as well as a series of essays focussing on the cultural politics of contemporary Kingston. Abstract Title | |
Evelyn O’Callaghan
University of the West Indies Bio |
Evelyn O’Callaghan is Professor of West Indian Literature, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Her published work includes articles and chapters on West Indian literature, particularly on women’s writing, alternative sexualities, early Caribbean narratives and more recently, ecocritical readings of Caribbean landscapes in visual and scribal texts. She is the author of Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (Macmillan, 1993) and Women Writing the West Indies 1804-1939: A Hot Place, Belonging to Us (Routledge, 2003). She edited a nineteenth century Caribbean novel, With Silent Tread by Frieda Cassin (Macmillan, 2002) and the reissue of Elma Napier’s early Dominican novel, A Flying Fish Whispered (Peepal Tree Press, 2011). An editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature, she serves on the advisory committees of several scholarly journals and has recently co-edited interdisciplinary collection of essays on Caribbean Irish Connections. Abstract Title | “Archiving the Conference 1981-2016: Institutional Memory and West Indian Literary Celebration” |
Ponya Ferdinand
New York Department of Education Bio |
Ponya Ferdinand is a well experienced Dance and Theater Artist from New Orleans, La. She holds a Master’s Degree in Dance Education as well as an undergraduate degree in Acting/Africana Studies from New York University. Ferdinand is the recipient of the Lew Wasserman Scholarship, which is awarded every year to academically successful scholars at Tisch School of the Arts. Currently, she is working within the New York Department of Education as a certified Teaching Artist K-12. Ferdinand is assisting many students develop in multiple ways from gaining self-expression, and self-discipline to understanding dance and theater in a social/historical context. This year, she will present at the SAMLA conference in Jacksonville, Florida. Her intriguing research includes Performance Studies, Africana Studies, and Dance and Theater of the African Diaspora. Abstract Title | Identity Formation in Adolescent Females of Caribbean Descent |
Winsome Hudson
National Library of Jamaica Bio |
Winsome Hudson is National Librarian / CEO National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). Her initiatives at the NLJ have included the biennial Distinguished Lecture Series, the re-establishment of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme in 2014 after an absence of fifty three years and the development of an online Index to Jamaican Poetry <http://www.nlj.gov.jm/poetryindex/search.htm.> Her newest interest is the acquisition and management of literary archives Abstract Title | The story of three literary archives at the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) and the lessons they teach about acquiring, preserving and making literary archives accessible to persons outside the Academy. |
Zoanne Evans
University of the West Indies Bio |
Zoanne Evans is an Instructor in the Foundation Language Programme at UWI Cave Hill Campus where she teaches courses in Academic and Technical Writing. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Literatures in English with a focus on selected Barbadian writers of the early twentieth century. Prior to joining the UWI staff in 2005, Ms. Evans worked as a trained teacher in the public school system for sixteen years and is an avid believer in youth development. In 1998, she founded a children’s charity called Kids in Action, a registered faith based organisation which seeks to empower youth by teaching them the importance of staying in school, developing their latent skills and grounding them in the Word of God. An avid writer and illustrator, she produced a self-published book of poetry in 1999 titled The Song Within Me. In 2005, she also self-published a book of prose and poetry titled In the Shade of the Shak-Shak. Her most recent publication is a colouring/activity book for children which was launched by Chattel House Books in October 2015. Abstract Title | Creating spaces: The Importance of Preserving the Works of Three Early Barbadian Writers |
Erich Nunn
Auburn University Bio |
Erich Nunn is associate professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches American Studies. His first book, Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination (2015), was published in the University of Georgia Press’s New Southern Studies Series. His articles have appeared in PMLA, Criticism, The Faulkner Journal, The Mark Twain Annual, Studies in American Culture, as well as in various collections. He has been a fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, the Harrison Institute at the University of Virginia, the Appalachian Sound Archives at Berea College, and the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University. Abstract Title | |
Kelly Baker Josephs
Williams College. Bio |
Kelly Baker Josephs is the 2016-17 Sterling Brown Professor at Williams College. She specializes in World Anglophone Literature with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature. In her permanent position as Associate Professor of English at York College/CUNY, she teaches courses in Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Literatures of the African Diaspora, and Gender Studies. Her book, Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2013), considers the ubiquity of madmen and madwomen in Caribbean literature between 1959 and 1980. She is the editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform and manages The Caribbean Commons website. Her current project, Caribbean Articulations: Storytelling in a Digital Age, explores the intersections between new technologies and Caribbean cultural production. Abstract Title | “So mi get it, so mi tell it”: The parameters and potentials of digital archives |
Barbara Lalla
University of the West Indies Bio |
Barbara Lalla is the author of three novels - Uncle Brother, Cascade and Arch of Fire. Professor Emeritus (Language and Literature) at UWI, she taught and published at St Augustine in English and Caribbean language history and literary discourse and in Caribbean re-rereading of other canons. Academic books include Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Re-reading of Medieval English Discourse and Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival. Co-authored and co-edited books include Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean (with Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard); Voices in Exile and Language in Exile (with Jean D’Costa); Postscripts: Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon from Shakespeare to Dickens (with Giselle Rampaul). Past President of The Society for Caribbean Linguistics and a winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence, Lalla also served the St Auustine campus as Public Orator for many years. Abstract Title | |
Tim Watson
University of Miami Bio |
Tim Watson teaches in the English Department at the University of Miami. He is the author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-editor, with Candace Ward, of a new edition of Cynric Williams’s 1827 novel Hamel, the Obeah Man (Broadview Press, 2010). Abstract Title | |
Leah Rosenberg
University of Florida Bio |
Leah Rosenberg is associate professor of English at the University of Florida (Gainesville); she is the author of Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature (Palgrave October 2007) and co-editor with J. Dillon Brown of Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar West Indian Literature ( University of Mississippi Press, 2105). A member of the advisory board of the Digital Library of the Caribbean and her current book project explores the relationships between tourism and Caribbean literature from the 1890s to the present. Abstract Title | |
Jonathan Beecher Field
Clemson University Bio |
Jonathan Beecher Field was born in Boston. He completed his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Chicago. Since 2004 he has taught at Clemson University. In 2009, he published Errands Into The Metropolis: New England Dissidents in Revolutionary London (UPNE). He has an essay on statues of Puritans forthcoming in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies (Cambridge). He has an article forthcoming in a special issue of Early American Literature focused on disability studies. Abstract Title | The Archive That Is Not One: Anglophone Popular Literature In Jamaica and New England |
Dania Dwyer
Northeastern University Bio |
Dania Dwyer is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She was born and raised in Jamaica and attended Mico University, University of the West Indies, Mona, and Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her interests span genre theory, postcolonial studies and West Indian literature. She is currently writing her dissertation on the ways contemporary West Indian writers co-opt early colonial texts through uptake. Abstract Title | |
Laurie N. Taylor
University of Florida Bio |
Laurie N. Taylor, PhD, is UF's Digital Scholarship Librarian, where her work focuses on socio-technical (people, policies, technologies, communities) needs for scholarly cyberinfrastructure. She works heavily with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) where she is the Digital Scholarship Director, Digital Humanities Working Group where she is a member of the Board for the DH Graduate Certificate, LibraryPress@UF where she is the editor-in-chief, and Research Computing to enable an environment of radical collaboration. Abstract Title | |
Raphael Dalleo
Bucknell University “The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the West Indian Archive”Bio |
Raphael Dalleo is associate professor of English at Bucknell University. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (2007), editor of Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (2016), and coeditor of Haiti and the Americas (2013). His book about pan-Caribbean responses to the U.S. occupation of Haiti, American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism, will be published by University of Virginia Press in fall 2016. Abstract Title | “The U.S. Occupation of Haiti and the West Indian Archive” |
Salma Meddeb
University of Montreal Archiving Carnival: Multiplicity and Counter-Memory in Mustapha Matura’s Play MasBio |
Salma Meddeb is a PhD candidate at the University of Montreal. She completed her Master's degree in English Studies at the University of Montreal. Her M.A thesis focused on colonialism and female resistance in Caribbean literature. She is interested in postcolonial, ethnic and gender studies, as well as performance theories. Her PhD dissertation investigates the representation and the performativity of the female racialized body in minority theatre, and explores new ways of corporeal visibility, with a particular focus on dance and music. She may be contacted at [email protected] Abstract Title | Archiving Carnival: Multiplicity and Counter-Memory in Mustapha Matura’s Play Mas |
Rhonda Cobham-Sander
Amherst College Bio |
Rhonda Cobham-Sander is Professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College. She received her B.A. from the University of the West Indies, Mona, and her Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland. She edited Watchers and Seekers, an anthology of writing by Black women in Britain, as well as special issues of Research in African Literatures Callaloo and The Massachusetts Review, she has published articles on Caribbean and African LiteratureTransition, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, Caribbean Quarterly, ARIEL, The Women’s Review of Books and Callaloo, as well as in a number of critical anthologies. Her new book, I and I: Epitaphs for the Self in the Work of V.S. Naipaul, Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott, was published in April 2016 by the University of West Indies Press Abstract Title | |
Cheryl Sterling
City College of New York Bio |
Cheryl Sterling, Ph.D., an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Black Studies Program, is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of numerous grants including the Organization of American States fellowship. Her teaching and research interests overlap the areas of identity, representation, and aesthetics in African and African Diaspora Literature, Post-Colonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, Social and Cultural Movements in Brazil. She has published numerous critical essays in noted journals and in texts such as Migrations and Creative Expressions of Africa and the African Diaspora, Narrating War and Peace in Africa and Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanites, Women and Music. Her award winning book, African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), investigates the expressivity of constructs from Candomblé in the contemporary literary and musical culture of Afro-Brazilians. She is currently working on a book that creates Aesthetic theory based on Yoruba Orisha paradigms to read African and African Diasporic texts and images. Abstract Title | Represent This, Imagine That: Visuals of Slavery and Freedom in Brazil and Haiti |
Nadia Ellis
University of California Bio |
Nadia Ellis is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures. Her publications include a book, Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora (Duke UP, 2015) and essays on electronic musics and urban disaster; sexuality and the archive in postwar London; and performance culture in the era of slavery Emancipation. She is at work on a new book on diasporic cities Abstract Title | |
Glyne Griffith
University at Albany Bio |
Glyne Griffith is Chair of the Department of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY. He is the author of The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958 and Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL). Abstract Title | "Henry Swanzy and Literary Radio Broadcast in Ghana, 1954 - 1958" |
Alison Donnell
University at Albany Bio |
Alison Donnell is a Professor of Modern Literatures in English in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK where she is also Head of the School of Literature and Languages and Chair of the University Committee on Museums, Archives and Special Collections. In collaboration with the Head of Museums and Collections at Reading, she developed the doctoral training programme in Collections-Based Research and co-founded the associated research centre. She has researched and taught Anglophone Caribbean Literature for more than twenty years with a particular interest in lesser-known early twentieth-century creative and critical writings. She has recently edited a double issue of Caribbean Quarterly on Caribbean Literary Archives and will deliver the National Library of Jamaica’s Annual Distinguished Lecture, ‘Una Marson: Animating the Archives of an Extraordinary Life’ on 2 October. Abstract Title | Safeguarding the Future of the Past: West Indian Literary Archives in Transition |
Ronald Cummings
Brock University Bio |
Ronald Cummings is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University and an affiliated faculty member of the Social Justice and Equity Studies Programme. He is also part of the Leverhulme Funded International Research Network on "Caribbean In/Securities: Creativity and Negotiation in the Caribbean" (CARISCC). Abstract Title | |
Lillian Manzor
University of Miami Bio |
Lillian Manzor is a founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective at the University of Miami, where she also serves as Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures and Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (www.cubantheater.org). Some of her publications include: Teatro venezolano del siglo XX (La Habana, 2008); Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en Estados Unidos (La Habana, 2005 - the first anthology on US Cuban theater published in Spanish and in Cuba); Latinas on Stage (Berkeley, 2000); and Borges/Escher, Cobra/CoBrA: Un encuentro postmoderno (Madrid, 1996). She is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Marginality Beyond Return: US Cuban Performance and Politics. As a leader in the development of Digital Humanities, she has directed the filming and editing of over 150 theater productions, in Cuba and the United States. She has published “Cuban Theater in Miami: 1960-1980” (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamitheater/), and El Ciervo Encantado: An Altar in the Mangroves (http://ciervoencantado.tome.press/). She is also working on Sites that Speak: Miami Through its Performing Arts Spaces in Spanish (http://scalar.usc.edu/hc/sites-that-speak/index). As a community engaged scholar, she has been involved in the development of cultural dialogues between Cuba and the US using theater and performance since 1993. Her research and cultural projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cuban Artist Fund, and Puentes Cubanos. Abstract Title | Bridging Caribbean Diasporas through the Cuban Theater Digital Archive |
Carol Bailey
Westfield State University Bio |
Carol Bailey is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Westfield State University in Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in World, Postcolonial, Caribbean and Cross-Cultural, and Women’s Literatures. She is the author of A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (UWI Press, 2014). Abstract Title | Archiving the Voice: Orality in Cyberspace |
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