Bio

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Kelly Baker Josephs specializes in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Digital Humanities. She is currently Professor of English and digital humanities at the University of Miami. Josephs was the 2016-17 Sterling Brown Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College and a 2018-19 Scholar-in-Residence at the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is author of Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2013), and co-editor with Roopika Risam of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), part of the Debates in Digital Humanities series. She co-organizes the annual Caribbean Digital conferences and is a member of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective.

Josephs serves as Director of the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute, was the founding editor of sx salon: a small axe literary platform, and manages The Caribbean Commons site along with various other digital projects. Learn more about these projects here.