Institute of Contemporary Art Miami ICA Miami

Donette Francis is the Director for the Center for Global Black Studies at the University of Miami. Her research and writing investigate place, aesthetic, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. Professor Francis is the author of Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature. She is currently working on a book project on Miami. Creole Miami: Black Arts at the Hemispheric Crossroads, a sociocultural history of Black arts practice in Miami from 1970s to present. She is co-founder of the Jamaican Cultural Political Modern Project, which convenes symposia and publishes essays that rethink Jamaica’s historiography. Essays from the proceedings on The Jamaican 1950s, 1960s, 1970s are published in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.