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Jessica Adams<\/strong> earned her PhD at Tulane University. Her areas of academic interest include cultural performance, the US South, and the relationship between violence and memory. She is a Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus. She has also taught at both Tulane University and the University of California at Berkeley. Adams has published articles on Southern and Caribbean culture in Cultural Critique<\/em>, TDR<\/em> (The Drama Review), and Sargasso<\/em>. She is co-editor of Revolutionary Freedoms: A History of Survival, Strength, and Imagination in Haiti <\/em>(Caribbean Studies Press 2006) and Just Below South: Performing Intercultures in the Caribbean and the Southern United States<\/em> (University of Virginia Press 2007). In addition, she is the author of Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Post-Slavery Plantation<\/em> (University of North Carolina Press 2007), which draws from cultural studies, ethnography, and literary criticism to examine links between plantation landscapes, sociocultural hybridity, and modern consumer capitalism. Adams co-edited a new edition of African American writer Arna Bontemps\u2019 Drums at Dusk <\/em>(Louisiana State University 2009), a novel about the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution that was previously out of print for seventy years. In addition, she is the co-editor of Guant\u00e1namo and American Empire; The Humanities Respond<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n Mary Ann Gosser<\/strong> received her PhD in Comparative Literature (Spanish and French) from Yale University. She is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University. Her areas of academic interest include Caribbean women writers, translation studies, and ecocriticism. Gosser has published numerous chapters and articles. Among her anthologized chapters are \u201cLatin American Women Moving Forward by Breaking the Silence\u201d (Peace Education Foundation 2008), \u201cMarie (Vieux) Chauvet y Myriam Warner-Vieyra: diarios demenciales o escrituras esculcantes\u201d (Colegio de M\u00e9xico 2003) and \u201cCaribbean Creolization: Jacqueline Manicom and Guadeloupean Ecofeminism\u201d (in Japanese, Tokyo University Press 2002). Examples of her articles on women writers include work on Rosario Ferr\u00e9, Mayra Montero, Olga Nolla, and Ana Lydia Vega, published in the journals Alba de Am\u00e9rica, NewMango Season, Confluencia, and Chasqui, <\/em>respectively. She is currently revising a book-length manuscript on Caribbean ecofeminism.<\/p>\n\n\n Edgardo P\u00e9rez Montijo<\/strong> holds a PhD in English from the University of Puerto Rico at R\u00edo Piedras. He is Professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. His areas of interest include narrative of the English, Spanish, and French-speaking Caribbean and the theory of performance. He has published essays about Caribbean literature in such journals as La Torre<\/em>, Sargasso<\/em>, Forum, <\/em>and El Amauta<\/em>. His article \u201cEl Nene como chivo expiatorio: Identidad de clase en La guaracha del Macho Camacho<\/em>\u201d will be included in a forthcoming volume in tribute to Puerto Rican writer Luis Rafael S\u00e1nchez. He is currently revising his dissertation, Earl Lovelace: Performance Writer<\/em>, a study of the use of performance in the novels of the Trinidadian author, for publication.<\/p>\n\n\n Peter Roberts<\/strong> holds a PhD from the University of the West Indies at Mona. He is Professor of Creole Linguistics in the Department of Language, Linguistics, and Literature of the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados. His areas of academic interest include applied linguistics, creolistics, and Caribbean history. A former President of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, he has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras. He also served as a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University. Roberts has published extensively. He is the author of West Indians and Their Language <\/em>(Cambridge 1988), CXC English<\/em> (1994), From Oral to Literate Culture: Colonial Experience in the English West Indies<\/em> (University of the West Indies 2000), and The Roots of Caribbean Identity, Language, Race and Ecology<\/em> (Cambridge 2008). The Roots of Caribbean Identity <\/em>received the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award. In addition, he is the co-author ofWriting in English<\/em> (1997).<\/p>\n\n\n Ivette Romero <\/strong>was awarded her PhD in French and Latin American Literature from Cornell University. She is Professor of Spanish at Marist College. Her main areas of academic interest are: Caribbean literature and visual arts, Latin American and francophone literature and cinema, cultural studies and women\u2019s studies. Romero is the co-editor of two books, Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse<\/em> (St. Martin\u2019s 2001) and Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures<\/em> (University Press of Florida 2008). She is also the author of numerous book chapters, including \u201cWomen Adrift: Madwomen, Matriarchs, and the Caribbean\u201d (Palgrave\/St. Martin\u2019s 2001), \u201cTravelers Possessed: Generic Hybrids and the Caribbean\u201d (Routledge 2002), \u201cMoving Metaphors: The Representation of AIDS in Caribbean Literature and Visual Arts\u201d (University Press of Florida 2008). In addition, Romero is the co-founder, editor, and administrator of Repeating Islands Blog (http:\/\/repeatingislands.com), a site for news and commentary on Caribbean culture, arts, and literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jessica Adams earned her PhD at Tulane University. 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