A Spirit of Inquiry: Convening Jamaica as Method

Donette Francis directs the American Studies Program at the University of Miami, where she is an associate professor of English and a founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective. She is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (2010). She is currently working on two book projects: “Illegibilities: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form,” an intellectual history of the anglophone Caribbean’s transnational literary culture, 1940–70; and “Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City,” a sociocultural history of black arts practice in Miami from the 1980s to the present.