Annie Paul is head of Publications at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, and managing editor of Social and Economic Studies. An internationally published critic and writer, she is also an associate editor of Small Axe and the recipient of a Prince Claus Fund award in support of the book project she is working on, “Suitable Subjects: The Problem of Art in the Postcolonial Caribbean.”
Krista A. Thompson is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, specializing in the arts of the African diaspora and the Caribbean. She is the author of a forthcoming book, The Tropicalization of the Anglophone Caribbean: The Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Jamaica and the Bahamas, and is currently working on a coedited collection entitled “Imagining the Caribbean: Art History and Visual Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean.”
Krista A. Thompson is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, specializing in the arts of the African diaspora and the Caribbean. She is the author of a forthcoming book, The Tropicalization of the Anglophone Caribbean: The Aesthetics and Politics of Space in Jamaica and the Bahamas, and is currently working on a coedited collection entitled “Imagining the Caribbean: Art History and Visual Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean.”
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is the curator at the Jersey City Museum, where she organizes exhibitions of historical and contemporary art, based on the permanent collection and on work by both established and emerging artists in the New Jersey and New York regions. She is currently working on a retrospective of the work and ideas of Rafael Montañez Ortíz, and a group show titled Tropicalisms: Subversions of Paradise. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Art Nexus, and Review, the journal of the Americas Society.
Khary Darby studied at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, where he won the Albert Huie award for the best graduate of the painting department in 2001. He was the winner of the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Purchase award in 2001. Darby lives and works in Kingston, where he has participated in such group shows as The Curator’s Eye 2004 and Young Talent 2002.
Andrea N. Douglas is curator of collections and exhibitions at the University of Virginia Art Museum in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is also lecturer in the McIntire Department of Art at the university. Her dissertation, entitled “Reclaiming the Fetish: Cultural Nationalism and the Black Aesthetic 1920–1940,” examines the careers of artists Aaron Douglas, Edna Manley, and Eduardo Abela and the roles each played in the national movements of America, Jamaica, and Cuba respectively. She is editor of the University of Virginia Art Museum’s permanent collection catalogue entitledThe Museum: Conditions and Spaces (2004).
Michelle Wilkinson is a Latino Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in residence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. Prior to her 2002–2003appointment she held the positions of assistant professor of literature at Bard College and editor and library coordinator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. She has published in Black Issues Book Review, AHA, and Revue Noire. Her current project is a study of visual art by blacks and Latinos active in the 1960s and 1970s arts movements.
Jerry Philogene is a lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. She is a PhD candidate at New York University, where she is completing a dissertation entitled “National Narratives, Caribbean Memories, and Diasporic Identities: Haitian and Jamaican Art, 1920–1960.”
Catherine Amidon is director of exhibitions at Plymouth State University. She has curated more than twenty exhibitions for institutions and as an independent curator, including Different Voices: New Art from Poland and in the fullness of time: island culture and the well grounded memory, as well as the first Jamaican pavilion at the Venice biennial.
John Beadle, a son of Jamaican and Bahamian parentage, lives and works in the Bahamas, on the island of New Providence. He obtained a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, studied in Rome as part of RISD’s European Honor Program, and received an MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University. Beadle has exhibited in solo and group shows in New Providence, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, France, and, in the United States, Washington D.C., Atlanta, New York City, and Martha’s Vineyard.
Peter Dean Rickards is a writer and photographer whose work is available at www.afflictedyard.com. An image maker par excellence, he is known for his work on the Puma campaign and has been published in XLR8R, Ragga, Trace, Jack, and Arena magazines.
Petrina Dacres is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, where she is writing a dissertation on monuments, nationalism, and historical consciousness in Jamaica. She is a curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica and a part-time lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Petrina Dacres is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, where she is writing a dissertation on monuments, nationalism, and historical consciousness in Jamaica. She is a curator at the National Gallery of Jamaica and a part-time lecturer at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
Carolyn Cooper teaches Caribbean, African, and African American literature at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she also coordinates the Reggae Studies Unit. She is the author of Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993) and the forthcoming Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large.
Narda Graham is a graduate of Cornell University, Ithaca, where she studied comparative literature, economics, and international relations. Her interests include governance, socioeconomic development, literature, languages, and visual and performing arts. She has published poetry and newspaper opinion articles, and is currently working on a study of the work of the poet Kamau Brathwaite.
Susan Mains is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her work focuses on the themes of diaspora and transnationalism in relation to Jamaican migration, Caribbean cities, media representations, and the US–Mexico border. She is working on two documentary films: “Ackee, Burgers, and Chips: An ABCof Jamaican Migration” and “Site Unseen: Kingston as Border City.” Her work has been published in such journals as Social and Cultural Geography and Hagar: International Review of Social Science.
Grant Farred teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University, Durham. He is author of Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa (1999) and What’s My Name? Vernacular Black Intellectuals (2003), and the editor of Rethinking C. L. R. James (1996). He is now completing a book entitled “Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football.”
Harvey Neptune is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University, Evanston. His research and writing address the decolonization of culture and the culture of decolonization in the Caribbean. He has published articles on the unmaking of whiteness and on the masculine rivalry between local and US blacks in occupied Trinidad, and is currently working on a book entitled “Caliban and the Yankees: Colonial Trinidad and the US Occupation, 1930–1947.”
Nadi Edwards teaches in the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, Mona. He has published widely on West Indian literature and Caribbean popular culture, and is currently writing a book on anglophone Caribbean literary and cultural theories.
