David Luis-Brown

David Luis-Brown is Associate Professor in the departments of English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press, 2008), "An 1848 for the Americas: the Black Atlantic, 'El negro mártir,' and Cuban Exile Anticolonialism," American Literary History 21.3 (2009), and “Slave Rebellion and the Conundrum of Cosmopolitanism: Plácido and La Escalera in a Neglected Antislavery Novel by Orihuela.” Atlantic Studies 9.2 (2012). In the spring of 2009, he worked in the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University as a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow.