Traditional and Contemporary Caribbean Slave Narratives (TCCSN) Database
Who We Are
Paola Yuli
Project Director
Paola Yuli is a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in the English Program at Howard University. Her research interests include Caribbean, African American, and British literatures, as well as postcolonial studies, histories of enslavement, and slavery archives. Recently, Paola was a Research Assistant supporting a grant project on former Howard University Dean of Women, Lucy Diggs Slowe. Paola also supported the development of a Women at Howard LibGuide on Digital Howard at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. When she is not tutoring graduate and undergraduate students in writing, Paola enjoys reading YA novels, crocheting, and watching Christmas movies.
Austin Anderson
Project Director
Austin Anderson is an English PhD student at Howard University, where he studies literatures of the Americas, with a particular focus on how race is represented in visual media such as comics and video games. He has previously published in The Comparatist and ASAP/J, and has presented at MLA, AAAD, NYU, and CUNY Graduate Center. He also serves on the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH). He is currently at work on an article about Kerry James Marshall's comic Rythm Mastr and on another project examining visual tourism and colonialism in the Far Cry video game series.