Caribbean Men in the Arts

Professor Opal Palmer Adisa, diverse and multi-genre, writes poetry, prose, essays and plays. The Former University Director for The Institute of Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, Regional Headquarters, Adisa is a gender specialist and cultural activist. Adisa has lectured and read/performed her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Germany, Spain, France, England, Prague, Italy, and Bosnia. An award-winning writer, Prof. Adisa has twenty-four titles to her credit, including The Storyteller’s Return (2022) and Portia Dreams (2021), the authorised children’s biography of Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister.

Dr Keino Senior is the Dean of the School of Arts Management and Humanities at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica. Senior received his PhD with High Commendation in Gender and Development Studies from the University of the West Indies. His research and peer-reviewed publications focus on the arts and black masculinities, men, sexuality and reproductive health and rights, and gender relations and power in the Caribbean. Dr Senior is the founding co-chair and co-editor of the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference and the Jonkunnu Arts Journal respectively.