Kathleen Donegan is associate professor of English and Daniel E. Koshland Distinguished Chair in Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (2014), which explores the relationship between suffering and violence in the early English colonial settlement period and argues that the first forms of colonial subjectivity and literature appeared out of this catastrophic relationship. She is currently working on a project titled “The Spectral Plantation: The Other Worlds of Slavery,” which traces the “other worlds” enslaved people created, having been unworlded by the conditions of their enslavement. It explores four modes of departure from within the plantation complex—haunting, madness, obeah, and music.
Marta Fernández Campa is a literary scholar whose research and writing focus on the creative processes of writers and visual artists, in particular, their critical inquiries into historical archives...
