Carol Y. BaileyCarol Y. Bailey is a professor of Black Studies at Amherst College, where she teaches courses in African American, African diasporic, and Caribbean literatures, as well as in interdisciplinary Black Studies. She is the author of Writing the Black Diaporic City in the Age of Globalization (Rutgers University Press, 2023), A Poetics of Performance: The Oral-Scribal Aesthetic in Anglophone Caribbean Fiction (UWI Press 2014), and co-editor (with Stephanie McKenzie) of Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce Green Place (New Directions, 2022). Read More Read Less