Caribbean Revolutions and Their Afterlives Description: The vision for this course is to introduce students to narratives (across multiple genres) about Cuba and Haiti that will encourage them to think about the ways these two (post-)revolutionary Caribbean nations circulate in contemporary
Courses I’m hoping to teach, maybe next year, pt 1
Queer Caribbean Literature Description: The Caribbean is commonly regarded as one of the more hostile regions on earth for LGBTQ people – and, indeed, legal proscriptions and social norms in many countries make life difficult for Caribbean citizens whose sexual
Hurricane season 2017
I have nothing new or particularly insightful to say about the experience of watching storm after storm ravage Caribbean and circum-Caribbean communities this year: Barbuda, Dominica, Puerto Rico, the USVI, the Bahamas, St Martin/St Maarten, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic,
The Jamaican 1970s symposium
Here’s what I’ll be doing, the last weekend in September. Time in NYC is always welcome; even more welcome is a chance to converse with these smart and generous people on a crucial era in my country’s post-colonial history, a