Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita, Language and Literature, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her many publications include the novels Grounds for Tenure, Uncle Brother, Cascade, and Arch of Fire, and the scholarly works Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse, Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival, the companion volumes Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole and Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (co-authored with Jean D’Costa), and Caribbean Literary Discourse (co-authored with Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard).
Nicole Roberts is Senior Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is Professor of French Literature and Creative Writing, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her publications include Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers (co-edited with Nicole Roberts); Echoes of the Haitian Revolution 1804–2004 and Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and Its Cultural Aftershocks (both co-edited with Martin Munro); the novel Mrs B and the short story collections Four Taxis Facing North and Stick No Bills.
Valerie Youssef is Professor of Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her publications include The Languages of Tobago: Genesis and Perspectives (co-authored with Winford James); Writing Rage: Unmasking Violence in Caribbean Discourse (co-authored with Paula Morgan); and The Culture of Violence: A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study (co-edited with Paula Morgan).
