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Caribbean Carnival Cultures Publication
Dr Emily Zobel Marshall is guest editor for the latest issue of The Journal of Carribean Culture, Caribbean Quarterly (Vol. 65, 2019).
This special edition focuses on Caribbean Carnival cultures and each article grew out of the Caribbean Carnival Conference Emily hosted at Leeds Beckett with Professor Max Farrar in 2017. Each contributor is a part of the Caribbean Carnival Cultures network Emily leads from Leeds Beckett University.
The special issue is focused on continuing the vital dialogue between carnival artists, practitioners and academics to reach a more profound understanding of this incredible cultural phenomenon. Featuring work by carnival academics, activists, playwrights and artists from both sides of the Atlantic including Emily, Eintou Springer, Milla Riggio, Max Farrar, Michael La Rose, Tola Dabiri-Hughes and Christian Høgsbjerg.
Professor Emily Zobel Marshall
Emily's research is informed by postcolonial theory and includes examinations of constructions of identity, race and racial politics and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is particularly interested in forms of cultural resistance and cross-cultural fertilisation in the face of colonialism.
Emily is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and has published widely in these fields, including her books Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012, University of the West Indies Press) and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (2019, Rowman and Littlefield). She is also a published poet with two poetry collections published by Peepal Tree Press, Bath of Herbs (2019) and Other Wild (2025).
Emily is a qualified Mountain Leader and a Black Girls Hike Leader with research interests and publications in decolonising the countryside and The Black Outdoors.
