Ronald Cummins is an Associate Professor in queer and postcolonial literatures in the Department of English at Brock University. His current book project, Queer Marronage and Caribbean Writing, examines the work of Dionne Brand, Michelle Cliff, Shani Mootoo and Patricia Powell and their representations of the figure of the Maroon—the runaway slave—in narratives which explore questions of sexual citizenship, gender and identity politics in the contemporary Caribbean.
