Amar Wahab is Associate Professor in Gender and Sexuality, at York University, Toronto. His publications include Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846 (in Series on Transnationalism, Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2019) and  Colonial Inventions: Landscape, Power and Representation in Nineteenth-Century ‘Trinidad’ (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). In 2005-2007 Amar was  a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at the Centre for Caribbean Studies/Centre for Translation and Cultural Studies at the  University of Warwick. Whilst there, he co-edited The First Crossing: Being the Diary of Theophilus Richmond, Ship’s Doctor on the Hesperus (Derek Walcott Press, 2007).