Editorial Commitee

Christopher Winks is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College of the City University of New York.  A scholar of comparative modernisms, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Latin American literature and African-American studies, he has taught at numerous universities in the United States and Mexico.   His reviews and articles, as well as his translations from French, German, and Spanish, have appeared in various journals and anthologies.  He was a founding editor of Black Renaissance / Renaissance Noire, a journal of culture and politics, and has recently completed a book, Golden Lands, Magic Cities: (Trans)Figurations of Utopia in Caribbean Literature. 

Bolaji Campbell teaches African and African Diaspora Art at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence RI. He has previously taught at the Universities of Ife, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. He has published numerous essays in scholarly journals and contributed chapters in books, as well as edited Diversity of Creativity in Nigeria (1993). He is the author of Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals (2007). Campbell holds an MFA in Painting from Obafemi Awolowo University and PhD in African Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Peter James Hudson is a writer and editor whose research interests include black literature and visual culture and the cultural history of money, finance and empire. His essays have appeared most recently in Chimurenga (Capetown), Transition: An International Review (Cambridge, MA), and Prefix Photography (Toronto) and he was editor of North: New African Canadian Writing, a special issue of West Coast Line_ (Vancouver). He completed his PhD in American Studies at New York University and was a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.  

Jean Ngoya Kidula is an Associate Professor of Music at the University
of Georgia in Athens GA, where she teaches courses in ethnomusicology, African music, African American music and historical musicology.  Her research has focused on indigenous and ritual musics of Africa as well as religious and religious popular music in Africa and its Diaspora - that is how religious music in and from Africa is expressed in the African Diaspora and how the music from the Diaspora finds expression in Africa and elsewhere.  Other interests include the output of African and African-Diaspora composers in European classical styles.

 

EditorS

Cheryl Sterling holds a Ph.D. in African Literature and Languages, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an M.Phil in African Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.  She teaches courses in African Literature and Post-colonial theory and African Diaspora cultural forms with a specific focus on Brazil. She has written critical essays published in Migrations and Creative Expressions of Africa and The African Diaspora [Ed. Toyin Falola], The Afro-Brazilian Mind/A Mente Afro-Brasileira and Marvels of the African World [Ed. Niyi Afolabi], Perspectives on African Literatures at the Millenium [Eds. Arthur D. Drayton, Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, and Peter Ukpokodu], and the news journal Feminist Voices. She is currently producing and editing a film titled, From Sacred to Secular:  Candomblé and Carnival in Salvador and teaches in the General Studies Program at New York University.  

Ifeona Fulani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing, also from NYU. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures and cultures, feminisms and feminist literary theory.  She is currently working on a manuscript titled Black Women Reconfiguring the Black Atlantic. Ifeona Fulani was awarded a McCracken Fellowship by New York University’s Department of Comparative Literature, 1999-2004; A Burke-Marshall Fellowship, New York University, Creative Writing Program, 1997-8; and a New York Times Foundation Creative Writing Fellowship, 1996-8. Her scholarly articles include, “The Caribbean Woman Writer and the Politics of Style,” Small Axe 13, 2004; “Representing the Body of the New Nation in The harder They Come and Rockers,” Anthurium 2005.
Ifeona Fulani is the author of a novel, Seasons of Dust and a recently completed collection of short stories, Ten Days in Jamaica. She teaches in the General Studies Program at New York University.

Advisory Board  

Robert Stam, NYU

Awam Amkpa, NYU

Charles Martin, Queens College, CUNY

Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, University of Kansas

Clyde Taylor, NYU