The African- Jamaican Aesthetics Cultural Retention and Transformation Across Borders centres on the use of African Jamaican Aesthetics in Jamaica's literary traditions and its transformation and transmission in the diaspora.

Lisa Tomlinson, PhD, is a researcher and scholar residing in Kingston, Jamaica. Her areas of specialization include literary and cultural studies of the Caribbean and African diaspora, Black literary criticism, and anti-colonial studies. She is currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in the Institute of Caribbean Studies.
Some of her publications include book chapters in Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence, Archipelagos of Sound: Transnational Caribbeanities: Women and Music, Critical Insights: Harlem Renaissance, as well as encyclopaedia entries in the Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Her current works include Black women's contribution to the Pan Africanist movement, Caribbean cultural expression and its diaspora, and Black Internationalism