Under/Water: Memorial Day, May 31, 2010

Myriam J. A. Chancy is Hartley Burr Alexander Chair of the Humanities at Scripps College. She is the author of eight books, including Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony and Transmission in the African Diaspora (2020) and The Loneliness of Angels (2010), winner of a 2011 Guyana Prize. She was an editorial advisory board member for PMLA from 2010 to 2012 and Editor of Meridians from 2002 to 2004, for which she garnered the 2004 Phoenix Award for Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.