Jennifer Drake is a French-American writer and academic, known for her scholarship on African American and Caribbean literature and culture and her critical work in postcolonial, diaspora, and gender studies. She is currently a professor of English and Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. Her literary and scholarly work explores themes such as identity, migration, and collective memory. Her most influential academic works include *Ego-Tripping: On the Performativity of the Black Body* and *When the World Turned Upside Down*. She is also the author of the novels *Sudden Departures* and *When We Last Spoke*. For her contributions, she has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde and the Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her work is distinguished by its ability to weave together rigorous scholarly analysis and creative narrative, making her an authoritative voice in transatlantic studies.