“Breaking and Entering the Colonial Archive” Available to Purchase

Born in Tobago, m. nourbeSe philip, a former lawyer, is an unembedded poet and writer. Best known for her genre-breaking book-length epic, Zong!, she is the 2020 recipient of PEN/Nabokov Award and the 2021 recipient of the Canada Council Arts Molson Prize.

Simona Bertacco is professor of postcolonial and translation studies at the University of Louisville. She worked previously as a ricercatrice at the University of Milan, in Italy. Her research focuses on postcolonial literatures, gender and translation studies. Her most recent publications include: Time, Space, Matter in Translation, coedited with P. Beattie and T. Soldat-Jaffe (Routledge 2022); The Relocation of Culture: Translations, Migrations, Borders, with N. Vallorani (Bloomsbury 2021); and the special issue of The New Centennial Review: Translation and the Global Humanities (vol. 16, no. 1, 2016).