Alan Rice is Principal Lecturer in American Studies and Cultural Theory at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. He has published widely on African American writing and culture Encyclopaedia series.

• Uprooted and Re-Routed - Actual and Imaginative Biographies of the Black Atlantic; "I Had a Cork in My Ass and I Couldn't Go Down" - Surviving the Middle Passage - A Counter-Historical Reading of Oral Narratives of the Black Atlantic; "Food for the Sharks" - Constructions and Reconstructions of the Middle Passage Imaginary in the Transatlantic Economy; "Up to the Highest Point" - Liberation and the Flying Symbolic in Black Atlantic Culture"Who's Eating Whom" - The Discourse of Cannibalism in Narratives of the Black and White Atlantic; Funky Eruptions and Chain-Dancing to Freedom - The Implications of Toni Morrison's Radical Style in The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby and Beloved; "The Dogs of Old England Meet the Lions of the New World" - Frederick Douglass, Paul Robeson and the Development of a "Strategic Anglophilia"; Black Bodies Transported Across the Ocean in Chains - The Black Atlantic in Cinema from King Kong to Amistad; From Ships on the Head to Stone-Markers on the Shore - The Conservation of Black Atlantic Memory.