Team
Keywords for Caribbean Studies is designed as a project that will grow annually with revisions scheduled to publish with the annual Caribbean Digital events. Scholars, writers, and artists are welcome to pitch future keywords.
Leads
Kelly Baker Josephs
is a professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of
Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone
Caribbean Literature
(2013) and co-editor of
The Digital Black Atlantic
(2021).
Roopika Risam
is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative
Literature in the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at
Dartmouth College. She is the author of
New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis,
and Pedagogy
(2018) and co-editor of multiple volumes, including
The Digital Black Atlantic
(2021). Learn more at
http://roopikarisam.com.
Contributors
Ronald Cummings (Maroon, Queer)
Laurent Dubois (History)
Andil Gosine (Indenture)
Justin Haynes (Carnival)
Peter James Hudson (Capitalism)
Nicholas Laughlin (Failure)
Rachel L. Mordecai (Genealogy)
Tzarina T. Prater (Diaspora)
Janelle Rodriques (Spirituality)
Comrades
Alex Gil
is Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University. He is the founder
of the Butler Studio at
Columbia University Libraries, a space focused on digital scholarship and
pedagogy; faculty moderator of
Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a vibrant trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental
humanities; and founding co-editor of
archipelagos journal. Recent digital scholarly projects include
Ed,
Torn Apart/Separados, and In The Same Boats.
Kaiama L. Glover
is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies and Director
of the Digital Humanities Center at Barnard College, Columbia University.
She is the author of
Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon
(Liverpool UP 2010), and of the forthcoming monograph, "A Regarded Self:
Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke University
Press). Glover is founding co-editor of
archipelagos journal
and founding co-director of the digital humanities project
In the Same Boats.
Vallerie Matos
is an English PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center with interests in
Sound Studies and Digital Humanities. She has an MA in Literature from
Hunter College and a BS from New York University. Prior to the Graduate
Center, Vallerie was a Program Director for an arts and social justice
based youth development program for 5 years.