Maximilian C. Forte has an educational background in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish, International Relations, and Anthropology. He lived and studied for seven years in Trinidad & Tobago, for four years in Australia, and for three years in the U.S. He is a dual Italian-Canadian citizen, and had previously achieved Permanent Resident status in Trinidad & Tobago.

Max is the author of Ruins of Absence, Presence of Caribs: (Post)Colonial Representations of Aboriginality in Trinidad and Tobago (University Press of Florida, 2005), the editor of Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival And Revival (Peter Lang New York, 2006) and Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang New York, 2010). His book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, 2012), was a finalist for the Quebec Writers Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction. One of his more recent edited collections, in which he has three chapters, is Who Is An Indian? Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas (University of Toronto Press, 2013). His other publications are listed here, and some are stored at Academia.edu.

Max Forte began exiting academia in 2023, and resigned from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2024.