Ronald Cummings is Associate Professor of Black Studies and African Diaspora Literatures in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Canada. He has edited special issues and published articles and in various journals including Small Axe, Transforming Anthropology, Cultural Dynamics, New West Indian Guide and the Journal of West Indian Literature. 

He has co-edited two critical volumes: Caribbean Literature in Transition 1970-2020 with Alison Donnell (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and the Sir George Williams University Occupation with Nalini Mohabir (Black Rose Books, 2021). He is also the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021). Professor Cummings is also a Research Associate with the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class (RGC) at the University of Johannesburg.