Shona N. Jackson

Born in Guyana and raised in Georgetown and in the United States Virgin Islands, Shona N. Jackson is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University where she teaches courses in Caribbean and Black Diaspora Studies and Postcolonial Theory. She received her PhD from the interdisciplinary Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford in 2005. She is founding co-editor of the book series in Caribbean Studies at University Press of Mississippi, a member of the editorial boards of Voces del Caribe, Praxis and Wadabagei and an advisory and contributing editor for Callaloo. Her publications include a co-edited issue of Callaloo and essays in Small Axe, the Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Caribbean Quarterly, and the collection Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture.