English 300-04: Junior Year Writing: Caribbean Family Sagas (Fall 2019) Mo/We 2:30PM – 3:45PM This seminar will investigate how the conventions of the family-saga novel are used to ease anxieties of belonging among contemporary Caribbean subjects (whose ability to claim
ENGL 372 Caribbean Literature, Fall 2018
TuTh 11:30-12:45, room TBC In this course we will read contemporary works from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking literatures of the Caribbean (all texts will be read in English), comprising a mixture of “canonical” and emerging authors. Lectures (rare) and
Pointers for students writing literary-criticism papers
Have a title. Ideally, it should both grab your readers’ attention and tell them something about the paper. As much as possible, try to organize the paper by the logic of your argument, not the chronology of the text. Avoid
Courses I’m hoping to teach, maybe next year, pt 2
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
What we’ll be reading this fall in my Intro to Caribbean Lit grad class
Very excited to be reading these texts together: Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Sab (Cuba, 1841) – transl. Scott Mary Seacole, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (Jamaica, 1857) Claude McKay, Banana Bottom (Jamaica, 1933) V.S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur (Trinidad, 1957) J.S.