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The Caribbean Arts and Culture Symposium 2011

CACS Founder & Director

Akilah Emily Williams is Chair of the Division of Humanities at Paine College in Augusta, GA. She is the author and/or editor of Beyond the Canebrakes: Caribbean Women Writers in Canada (2008); Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean Literary and Cultural Criticism (2006); The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite (2004); Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography (2002); and Poetic Negotiations in the Works of Brathwaite, Harris, Senior, and Dabydeen (1999). Her essays, interviews, and reviews appear in the journals Wasafiri, African American Review, Canadian Literature Review, The Caribbean Writer, Journal of African American Men, and CLA Journal, among others. A Fulbright Scholar (2000-2001) at the University of the West Indies (Kingston), Williams is currently writing the biography of Kamau Brathwaite.

Dr. Emily Allen Williams with Chris Thomas, Moderator of the 2005 Symposium at Morehouse College.