Caribbean Futurism and Beyond: Conversations with Writers of Folklore, Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction

Itis a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the speculative fiction, genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions: folklore, mythology, children’s and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity

Jarrel De Matas is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities. He studies culturally informed scientific, medical, and health practices through an intersectional approach to Caribbean science fiction and science and technology studies. He is also interested in policy development for developing countries especially, but not limited to, the Caribbean. In addition to his academic work, De Matas is a newspaper columnist and his first book, a collection of columns written during 2023, is titled Opinions in Review: 2023.