Donette Francis is co-director for the Center for Global Black Studies and past director the American Studies Program at the University of Miami.  An Associate Professor of English and founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective, she specialises in Caribbean literary and intellectual histories, American immigrant literatures, African diaspora literary studies, globalisation and transnational feminist studies, and theories of sexuality and citizenship.  Professor Francis is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.  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, 1940-1970; and Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City, a sociocultural history of black arts practice in Miami from 1980s to present.  Dr. Francis is co-founder of the Jamaican Cultural Political Modern Project, which convenes symposia and publishes essays that rethink Jamaica’s historiography.  Essays from the proceedings on The Jamaican 1960s and The Jamaican 1970s are published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. Professor Francis is also a Research Associate with The Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.