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CACS
Founder & Director
Akilah Emily Williams is Professor of
Liberal Arts at Savannah College of Art and Design. 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.
Associate
Director
Stephanie Batcos received her B.A. from the University of
Michigan and her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.
She has published articles about Olive Senior and Edith Wharton.
Her research interests are in American literature and culture,
transatlantic studies, and the relationship between the genres
of travel writing, autobiography, and fiction. Currently,
she is writing a biography of Edith Wharton as a nonfiction
writer. She currently teaches writing and literature at
Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. |
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