Issues

Raphael Dalleo teaches in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University. His essays on Caribbean literature have appeared in the Journal of West Indian Literature, South Asian Review, Latino Studies, Anthurium, and ARIEL. He has just completed a coauthored book entitled Sell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature.

Nicole Matos is assistant professor of English at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. She has previously published articles on such Caribbean authors as Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Antoni, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and has also coauthored a first-year composition textbook, Intersections: Readings for College and Beyond (2005). She is currently completing her doctorate in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a dissertation on contemporary Caribbean fiction.

Maria Cristina Fumagalli is senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001) and the editor of a special issue of Agenda on Derek Walcott (2002–2003). She is working on a new monograph that aims at investigating the relation between the Caribbean and North Atlantic conceptualizations of modernity and has just established, together with Peter Hulme and Owen Robinson, a project titled “American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography.”

Peter L. Patrick is professor of sociolinguistics at University of Essex. His books include Urban Jamaican Creole(1999) and Comparative Creole Syntax (forthcoming, with John Holm). His research focuses on African Diaspora Englishes (Jamaican Patwa, Caribbean English Creoles, African American English, British AfroCaribbean English) covering narrative and discourse analysis, language variation and change, forensic and clinical linguistics, and linguistic human rights.

Angeletta KM Gourdine is associate professor of English and director of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University where she works on African diaspora literature and culture. She is the author of The Difference Place Makes: Gender Sexuality and Diaspora Identity (2002) and is currently at work on a study of Caribbean women's storytelling and narratives of nation.

David Scott teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University where he is professor of anthropology. He is the author most recently of Conscripts of Modernity (2004) and coeditor of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (2006).

Steve Ouditt is an artist and lecturer at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. He has worked as a curator of Education and Research at the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, and as a lecturer at the Caribbean School of Architecture, Kingston. He has also been a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, Netherlands, and a visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture at Universidad Nacional Pedro Henrique Urena (UNPHU) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His book ‘creole in-site’ was published in London in 1998 by inIVA.

Mark McWatt teaches at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, where he is professor of West Indian Literature and also teaches a course in creative writing. He has published numerous scholarly articles on West Indian (particularly Guyanese) literature. He has also published two volumes of poetry, Interiors (1979) and The Language of El Dorado (1994, which won the Guyana Prize for Poetry), and a collection of short fiction, Suspended Sentences(2005). He is also the coeditor (with Stewart Brown) of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse (2005).

Belinda Edmondson is associate professor of English and African American and African Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of Making Men (1999) and editor of Caribbean Romances (1999), and is currently working on a project titled “Caribbean Middlebrow: Popular Culture and the Caribbean Middle Class.”

Harvey Neptune is assistant professor in the Department of History at Temple University. Trained in Latin American and African Diaspora Studies, his book, Caliban and the Yankees: Colonial Trinidad and the United States Occupation(forthcoming 2007) reflects a particular interest in close encounters between Caribbean people and the United States.

Michelle Stephens is associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962 (2005). She is currently working on a collection of essays titled Black Acts: Performances of Race and Masculinity across the African Diaspora, and a study of contemporary writings by women of color entitled, Archaeologies of Capital: The Woman of Color and Global Histories. She serves on the editorial boards of American Literature and the Radical History Review.Michelle Stephens is associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962 (2005). She is currently working on a collection of essays titled Black Acts: Performances of Race and Masculinity across the African Diaspora, and a study of contemporary writings by women of color entitled, Archaeologies of Capital: The Woman of Color and Global Histories. She serves on the editorial boards of American Literature and the Radical History Review.Michelle Stephens is associate professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and the author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962 (2005). She is currently working on a collection of essays titled Black Acts: Performances of Race and Masculinity across the African Diaspora, and a study of contemporary writings by women of color entitled, Archaeologies of Capital: The Woman of Color and Global Histories. She serves on the editorial boards of American Literature and the Radical History Review.