Michelle Stephens (editor) - Contemporary Archipelagic Thinking: Towards New Comparative Methodologies and Disciplinary Formations

Jessica Swanston Baker is a Caribbeanist ethnomusicologist and assistant professor of ethnomusicology and the humanities at the University of Chicago. Her first book project, Island Time: Speed, Music, and Modernity in St Kitts and Nevis, focuses on tempo analysis as it relates to issues of postcoloniality and modernity within the small-island Caribbean. She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral fellow in critical Caribbean studies at Rutgers University.

Godfrey Baldacchino is prorector (international development and quality assurance) and professor of sociology at the University of Malta. At the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, he also served as Canada Research Chair in Island Studies (20032013) and UNESCO Co-chair in Island Studies and Sustainability (20162020). He set up Island Studies Journal and served as its executive editor from 2006 to 2016. He has written and edited several books, including, for example, Archipelago Tourism: Problems and Prospects (2015).

Jeremy DeAngelo received his doctorate in medieval studies from the University of Connecticut and has held teaching and research positions at Rutgers University, Carleton College, and North Central University. He has published in Scandinavian Studies, Peritia, and Anglo-Saxon England and has a book published by Amsterdam University Press, Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic.

Sarah DeMott is a Middle East research librarian at Harvard University. Her forthcoming book, Mediterranean Nomads: Mobility between Tunisia and Sicily, focuses on defamiliarizing cartographies of power through networks of gender, migration, and mobility. DeMotts recent scholarship draws on archipelagic connections across the Arab world from North Africa and the Sahel to the Levant and Indochina. Her current manuscript project, Tropical by Design: French Empire and Afro-Asian Circulations across the Tropical World, c. 18801980, mines colonial archives to understand the relationships between empire, technology, and the environment.

Haruki Eda is completing his PhD in sociology at Rutgers University, where he teaches sociology, Asian American studies, East Asian studies, and English composition. His first book project, Queer Unification: Community and Healing in the Korean Diaspora, examines ethnicity, sexuality, and place in US-based Korean community organizing. He is the 2014 winner of the Philips G. Davies Graduate Student Paper Award by the National Association for Ethnic Studies, and his entry was published in Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change (2015). His work has also appeared in Social Text Periscope (2018) and anthologies Gender and Love: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2013) and Converging Identities: Blackness in the Contemporary African Diaspora (2013).

Mary Eyring is associate professor of English and American studies at Brigham Young University. She has recently published a book, Captains of Charity: The Writing and Wages of Postrevolutionary Atlantic Benevolence, and with Matthew Mason and Christopher Hodson coedited a special issue of Early American Studies titled The Global Turn in Early American Studies. She is writing a book titled Saltwater: Globalizing Early American Grief.

Susan Stanford Friedman is Hilldale Professor in the Humanities and Virginia Woolf Professor of English and Womens Studies Emerita at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Recent books include Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity across Time (2015) and the edited volumes Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses (2013, with Rita Felski) and Contemporary Revolutions: Turning Back to the Future in 21st-Century Literature and Art (2018). Publishing widely on modernism, feminist theory and womens writing, migration, and religion, she is the author of Mappings: Feminism and the Geographies of Encounter (1998), among other books. Her work has been translated into eleven languages, and she is at work on Sisters of Scheherazade: Religion, Diaspora, Muslim Womens Writing.

Jenny R. Isaacs is a PhD candidate in geography at Rutgers University, where she is a part-time lecturer. Her critical environment research in conservation applies an archipelagic perspective within feminist decolonial more-than-human geography, critical animal studies, science and technology studies, and political ecology. Her work has been published in several disciplinary collections, and she recently served as guest editor for a special theme section on more-than-human contact zones for Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space (2019).

Christopher J. Lee is associate professor of history and Africana studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. He has published five books, including Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, 2019). In 2016 he was a research associate with the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University as part of its seminar on archipelagoes.

Thomas P. Leppard is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University and codirects the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project. His research is primarily concerned with the transition to complex social organization and has appeared in Current Anthropology, Human Ecology, Environmental Conservation, Antiquity, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, World Archaeology, Nature + Culture, and other journals.

Pippa Marland is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow based at the University of Leeds, where she is a member of the Environmental Humanities Research Group. Her research project is a study of the representation of farming in modern British nature writing. She has published widely on ecocriticism, ecopoetry, and nature writing and is coeditor of the new Routledge collection Walking, Landscape and Environment. She is author of a monograph titled Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago, forthcoming in 2021 as part of the Rowman & Littlefield Rethinking the Island series.

Yolanda Martnez-San Miguel is the Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. She specializes in colonial and postcolonial Latin American and Caribbean literatures. She is author of four books: Saberes americanos: Subalternidad y epistemologa en los escritos de Sor Juana (1999); Caribe Two-Ways? Cultura de la migracin en el Caribe insular hispnico (2003); From Lack to Excess: Minor Readings of Latin American Colonial Discourse (2008); and Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intracolonial Migrations in a Pan-Caribbean Context (2014). She has coedited two anthologies: Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought (2016, with Ben. Sifuentes-Juregui and Marisa Belausteguigoitia) and Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities (2016, with Sarah Tobias).

Elizabeth A. Murphy is assistant professor of Roman archaeology in the Department of Classics at Florida State University and codirects the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project. She specializes in the archaeological investigation of crafts production, technology, ancient work and labor, and economic history. Her work has appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, and Anatolian Studies.

Anjali Nerlekar is associate professor in the Department of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia at Rutgers University. She teaches courses on Indian and Indo-Caribbean literature at Rutgers, and her research interests include multilingual Indian modernisms, Indo-Caribbean literature and the Indian diaspora, spatial and cartographic studies, translation and multilingualism, postcolonial archives, and Indian print cultures. Her first book is on the post-1960 bilingual poetry from Bombay,