Brian Russell Roberts is Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Brigham Young University. He has published widely on Black internationalism and international representation, with books including Artistic Ambassadors: Literary and International Representation of the New Negro Era (U of Virginia P, 2013) and Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference (Duke UP, 2016). His most recent book is Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Duke UP, 2021).