Faith Smith
Faith Smith teaches African and Afro-American Studies, English and American Literature, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She is the author of Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2002) and the edited volume Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011). “Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-Sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century," is a book manuscript that tracks the silences and fantastical resolutions of that era’s novels, and the complex responses to photography, to examine Caribbean people measuring the growing imperial interests of the USA against the fortunes of their particular European empire, in the wake of the Spanish American and Boer Wars. Another manuscript, “Dread Intimacies,” is a study of 21st-century Caribbean fiction and visual culture.
