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Curdella Forbes Editor & Author

Raphael Dalleo is Professor of English at Bucknell University. His most recent book, American Imperialism's Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism (2016), won the Caribbean Studies Association's 2017 Gordon K. and Sibyl Lewis Award for best book about the Caribbean. He is author of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (2011), editor of Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies (2016), coeditor of Haiti and the Americas (2013), and coauthor of The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature (2007). He serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of West Indian Literature. Curdella Forbes is Professor of Caribbean Literature at Howard University. She is also a fiction writer. Her academic publications include From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender (2005), which won the University of the West Indies prize for Best Research Book (2006). She has published book chapters and essays in journals including Small Axe, Journal of West Indian Literature, Anthurium, Postcolonial Text, Ariel, and Journal of Literature and Psychology. She serves on the editorial advisory board of JWIL and Anthurium, and has authored major works of fiction including A Tall History of Sugar (Akashic 2019, Canongate 2020).