Faith Smith’s work on the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries includes Strolling in the Ruins: The Caribbean’s Non-sovereign Modern in the Early Twentieth Century (2023), and Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean (2002). She is the editor of Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (2011). She is working on “DreadKin,” a project on fiction and visual culture in our contemporary moment. She teaches at Brandeis University.