Candace Ward - Florida State University

Candace Ward, Associate Professor of English at Florida State University, teaches early Caribbean studies and eighteenth-century British culture. She is the author of Desire and Disorder: Fevers, Fictions, and Feelings in English Georgian Culture (Bucknell UP, 2007) and recently co-edited a critical edition of the 1826 creole novel, Hamel the Obeah Man (with Tim Watson, forthcoming Broadview Press) and a special issue on Caribbean slavery for ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (with Sara Salih, 2007). In 2002, she was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, where she began the research for her most recent projects, Crossing the Line: The Early Caribbean Novel, 1800-1842 and The Caribbean Cosmopolis, parts of which have been presented at numerous national and international conferences.