Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she works on postcolonial and cultural studies of the global south, focusing on the Caribbean. Her research spans memory studies, environmental humanities, feminism, social movements, nationalism, indentureship and slavery, fieldwork, the arts, and everyday cultural practices.  Her publications include the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial; as well as The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory; Caribbean Military Encounters (co-edited with Lara Putnam); and Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities (co-edited with Debra Castillo). She edits Palgrave Macmillan’s series New Caribbean Studies. A founding member of the Pitt Prison Education Project, Puri is interested in diversifying the settings, methods, and reach of the humanities. Her book-in-progress is entitled “Poetics for Freshwater Justice: Postcards of the Caribbean Anthropocene.”