Kaneesha Parsard is Assistant Professor of English at University of Chicago.  Her work examines the legacies of slavery and emancipation in the Americas, and particularly concerns how gender and sexuality structure race, labor, and capital. Her first book project, An Illicit Wage: Economies of Sex and the Family after West Indian Emancipation, argues that, as British colonial administrators and employers sought to manage Black labor and indentured Indian labor, West Indian cultural works began to imagine informal economies and intimacies that delinked freedom from the wage.  Her work has been published in Small Axe and in the edited volume Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments (Palgrave, 2016).