| Research interests in Caribbean writing, especially poetry; Guyanese culture and politics; postcolonial literatures and cultures; Black British writing; slavery in the Americas; publishing in the Caribbean; textual criticism.
I am the editor of University of Hunger, Collected Poems and Selected Prose of Martin Carter (Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2006); and Over Seas: A Transnational Caribbean, The Arts Journal Special Issue, 2.2 (March 2006). I contribute to the Guyanese newspaper, Stabroek News, and have written articles on Guyanese writers on the radio, Martin Carter, Wilson Harris, teaching ‘the Americas’, Caribbean manuscripts, Caribbean protest writing.
James Procter (University of Newcastle), Bethan Benwell (University of Stirling), Jackie Kay (University of Newcastle) and I received an AHRC grant to fund a three-year project (2007-2009) on Devolving Diasporas: Migration and Reception in Central Scotland, 1980- present. This project involves the analysis of the cultural production of ‘diasporic’ literature and investigates the relationship between reading, location, and migration in book group discussions.
See http://www.devolvingdiasporas.com/
I am a member of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies and I administer the Charles Wallace Fellowship, bringing Indian creative writers to Stirling University. The fellowships are awarded annually and last for one semester. For more information see http://www.britishcouncil.org/india-scholarships-cwit-full-visiting.htm
Click here for further information on the Caribbean-Scottish Passages conference.
I am interested in supervising research in the following areas: postcolonial literatures and cultures; Guyanese writing and culture; Caribbean poetry, prose fiction and drama.
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