Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is at work on a book entitled “Writing On Water: Postcards from the Caribbean Anthropocene.” Her previous books include The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory and the award-winning The Caribbean Postcolonial. She has (co)edited 4 books: Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities; Caribbean Military Encounters; The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics; and Marginal Migrations. She co-edits Palgrave Macmillan’s New Caribbean Studies series. Her work spans postcolonial, Caribbean, gender, and memory studies; indentureship, slavery, and incarceration; environmental humanities; and social movements. She is especially interested in interdisciplinary and fieldwork-based methods that explore the intersection of the arts, everyday life, and social justice. Puri is also a co-founder of the Pitt Prison Education Project. For more about Puri's work, see: