Amerindian Masking in Trinidad's Carnival: The House of Black Elk in San Fernando

Coauthor of Censure et bibliothÈques au XXe siÈcle. She was cofounder and a regular contributor to Histoires d'Elles, a French feminist periodical, and has also written on Brontë's Juvenilia. She has worked as a translator, editor, and French instructor. Since 1996 she has traveled several times to Trinidad to carry forward research on Indian mas in the Caribbean

Presidential Research Professor in History at Northern Illinois University. He is studying Trinidad Carnival as part of his research on European and American festive practices from the late Middle Ages onward. His recent books include Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext (University of California Press, 1989) and Carnival American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile (University of Chicago Press, 1990). He serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of the History of Ideas and Medieval Folklore