PATRICIA J. SAUNDERS is associate professor of English at the University of Miami, where she co-edits Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. She is the author of Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2007) and co-editor of Music. Memory. Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination (2007). Her second book, Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2022) examines contemporary Caribbean popular modes of expression to argue that consumption is still a dominant factor in determining citizenship. Her work has appeared in Small Axe, Transforming Anthropology, the Journal of West Indian Literature, and Feminist Studies.
