Prefigurings Remembered: Charles Carnegie and Critical Caribbean Studies at the Turn of the Millennium

Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Caribbean literature and Black diaspora studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (2021) and coeditor of three critical volumes, including, with Nalini Mohabir, The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams Occupation (2022). He is also an affiliated member of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender, and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.

Matthew Chin is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, history, gender, and sexuality trained in anthropology and social work who teaches in the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. His book project Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica (forthcoming), which proposes queer fractals as theory and method of history-making, is a winner of the Duke University Press Scholar of Color First Book Award. Chin’s work has been published in Public Culture, Interventions, Time and Society, Small Axe, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, and Journal of Homosexuality.