
Faith Smith is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, and of English, at Brandeis University. Her book Strolling through the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her new project, “DreadKin,” is a study of twenty-first century literary and visual culture and its mappings of pasts and futures, as well as genealogies of kinship and intimacy, in the context of the Caribbean’s complex experiences with sovereignty in our current global moment.