Biography

Allyson Salinger Ferrante is originally from St. Thomas,U.S.V.I then New York/ New Jersey, and has happily relocated to the snow-free environment of Southern California. She has a BA in English from Skidmore College where her senior thesis project studied examples of knowing and creating the "other" in travel literature. She is interested in figures of the other and the foreigner, postcolonialism, and cultural and racial hybridity. Whatever cannot fit neatly, whomever bridges multiple poles of reality or identification has always been fascinating to Allyson. Her dissertation analyzes how the Fantastic literary genre informs a reading of Caribbean literature. She believes that through analyzing how to recognize the creolization of the Caribbean, the region can serve as a model for other multicultural communities around the globe. Her primary language is English and she also speaks Italian and French.