Kelly Baker Josephs

Editorial committee member, small axe

Kelly Baker Josephs is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNY and of Digital Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Lit­erature (2013), editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform, and manager of The Caribbean Commons website. Josephs was the 2016-17 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, October 2013).

“Handling with Care: Handling with Care: On editing, invisibility, and affective labor” Special section on “What is Journal Work” Small Axe no. 50 (July 2016): 98-105.

“Straddling Shifting Spheres: A Conversation with David Chariandy” Transition 113 (Spring 2014): 111-127.

“Beyond Geography, Past Time: Afrofuturism, The Rainmaker’s Mistake, and Caribbean Studies” Small Axe no. 41 (July 2013): 123-135.