Ronald Cummings is Professor of Caribbean Literature and Black Diaspora Studies at McMaster University, Canada. He has co-edited significant volumes including The Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (with Pat Noxolo and Kevon Rhiney), The Fire That Time: Transnational Black Radicalism and The Sir George Williams University Occupation ( with Nalini Mohabir) and Caribbean Literature in Transition 1970-2020 (with Alison Donnell). He is also the editor of Make The World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen. Ronald is a senior editor at the Journal of West Indian literature (JWIL) and an editor of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.