Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies explores the couple, and intimacy, as foundational historical categories in postcolonial and decolonial studies. At the heart of her narrative lie Carl, a Jamaican ...

Michelle Stephens
Michelle Stephens, professor of English and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014); three coedited collections in archipelagic American and Caribbean studies; and two in-progress monographs on “islandness” and race and psychoanalysis.