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J. VIJAY MAHARAJ: CURRICULUM VITAE

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JVijayMaharaj

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: [email protected] or

[email protected]

Skype ID: Vijay Maharaj

Twitter: @VijayMaharaj1

WORK:

c/o Department of Literary, Cultural and

Communication Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Education

The University of the West Indies

St Augustine

Telephone (Work): (868) 662-2002 Ext

83039 or 82035 (message)

Fax: (868) 663-5059

Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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QUALIFICATIONS

Granting Institution: The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

2009 PhD Literatures in English

Dissertation Title: ‘A Caribbean Katha: Re-visioning the ‘Indo-

Caribbean’ ‘Crisis of Being and Belonging’ through the Literary

Imagination.

Examines twelve works published between 1877 and 1998

and traces changes and continuities in representations of

indentured labourers from India and their Caribbean

descendants.

Analyzes these changes and continuities in terms of the

defining frameworks in which they are embedded – broadly

speaking, colonial, anti-colonial / nationalist/ modernist, and

finally the postmodernist and postcolonial which include

discourses of ethnic re/construction.

Engages with the various manifestations of the Caribbean

creolisation discourse by examining how ideas of cultural,

genetic and other perceived forms of mixing are articulated

within the frameworks mentioned above

The research is informed by and organized in terms of an

indigenous discursive/ story-telling form – the Asian kathaa


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re created in the Caribbean by the descendants of the

indentured labourers. This move is an attempt to own the

theoretical space of aesthetic analysis as per the concept of the

‘organic intellectual.’ This was posited internationally by

Antonio Gramsci and appropriated via Michel Foucault and

Gilles Deleuze by Caribbean and postcolonial intellectuals such

as Stuart Hall, Edouard Glissant, Edward Said and others. But

it has also always been articulated independently in Caribbean

writing by Wilson Harris. George Lamming, Edward Kamau

Brathwaite, V.S Naipaul, Sylvia Wynter and others.

December 2006 Certificate in (University) Tertiary Level (CUTL) Teaching

(See https://sta.uwi.edu/cetl/teaching/cutl/main.asp for programme composition)

August 2001 Certificate in Language Teaching and Learning

February 2000 B.A (Hons) - Majors - Literatures in English, Sociology

Granting Institution: Corinth Teachers College

July 1996 Teachers’ Diploma

https://sta.uwi.edu/cetl/teaching/cutl/main.asp


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PUBLICATIONS

I - Chapters in Academic Monographs:

Introduction - The First Naipaul Seven: From The Mystic Masseur to The Middle

Passage

and Beyond Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (forthcoming).

‘A Case of Too Many Mystic Masseurs” Chapter in The First Naipaul Seven: From The

Mystic Masseur to The Middle Passage and Beyond Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

(forthcoming).

Introduction - Memories of India ed. J Vijay Maharaj and Radica Mahase Delhi:

Manohar, 2019 (forthcoming).

Introduction - Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies. Peepal Tree Press, 2019

‘The Mustard Seed’ Chapter in Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Synergies. Peepal Tree,

2019

‘Unknown Protagonists of Independence’ Chapter in Fires of Hope: Fifty Years of

Independence in Trinidad and Tobago ed Debra Mc Collin Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI

Press, 2016.


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‘Cascadura Lovesongs: Displacing Indo-, Afro-, and Other Centricities in

Selvon’s Romance’ - Chapter in Beyond Calypso: Re-reading Samuel Selvon ed.

Malachi McIntosh. Kingston Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2016.

‘The Nation in the Literary Imagi-Nation: A Question of Human Dignity’ - Chapter

in Contemporary Caribbean Dynamics: Reconfiguring Caribbean Culture ed. Beatrice

Boufoy-Bastick and Savrina Chinien. Kingston Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2015.

‘A Study of the Imperial Gaze: Jenkins’s Lutchmee and Dilloo’ - Chapter in Postscripts:

Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon from Shakespeare to Dickens ed. Barbara Lalla

and Giselle Rampaul. Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI Press, 2014.

‘Mr Biswas: Paragon of Creole Virtues’ - Chapter in V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr

Biswas: Critical Perspectives ed. Meenakshi Bharat. New Delhi: Pencraft International,

2013.

‘Caribbean Politics and Poetics’ - Chapter in Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean

Women’s Literature ed. Mariam Pirbhai and Joy Mahabir. New York and London:

Routledge, 2012.

‘A Mala in Obeisance: Hinduism in Select Works by V. S. Naipaul’ - Chapter in Created

in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul ed. Jennifer Rahim and Barbara

Lalla. Kingston, Jamaica: The UWI Press, 2011.


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II - Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

“The Politics and Aesthetics of Recognition: A Case of Too Many Masseurs?” Tout

Moun: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies May 2019

Review of Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought in The Journal of West Indian Literature

November 2017

‘The Trials of Becoming a Man in Cyril Dabydeen’s The Wizard Swami’ in Journal of

West Indian Literature Vol 21 Nos. 1&2 November 2012

‘Negotiations of Multiculturalism through Mimicry and Hybridity’ in Journal of the

Department of Behavioural Sciences UWI St Augustine Vol. 1 No 1 March 2012

‘Banal Violence: Abject Plantation Legacies’ in Tout Moun: A Journal of Caribbean

Cultural Studies Vol l No 1 August 2011

‘A Mala in Obeisance’ Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Vol 5 No 2 2007.

III – edited collections

Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies ed. J. Vijay Maharaj Peepal Tree Press, 2019


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Memories of India ed. J Vijay Maharaj and Radica Mahase Delhi: Manohar, 2019

(forthcoming).

The First Naipaul Seven: From The Mystic Masseur to The Middle Passage and Beyond

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (forthcoming).

Other Publications

1. “Seepersad & Sons Conference to explore the role of the Naipaul family” UWI Today

Sunday 3rd May, 2015 p. 14

2. “Seepersad & Sons: The Debunking of Myths” UWI Today Sunday 7th June, 2015 p.

21

3. “Shiva in the Naipaul Dynasty” UWI Today Sunday 5th July, 2015 p. 17

4. “The Plenitude of VS Naipaul” UWI Today Sunday 6th September, 2015 p. 15

5. “A Writer’s People for V.S. Naipaul: Created in the West Indies” UWI Today

Sunday 6th September, 2018 pp. 8-9. See

https://sta.uwi.edu/uwitoday/pdfs/UWItodayseptember2018.pdf

6. “Teaching V.S. Naipaul in the Caribbean” Conversations August 28, 2018.

See https://theconversation.com/teaching-v-s-naipaul-in-the-caribbean-

101653

https://sta.uwi.edu/uwitoday/pdfs/UWItodayseptember2018.pdf

https://theconversation.com/teaching-v-s-naipaul-in-the-caribbean-101653

https://theconversation.com/teaching-v-s-naipaul-in-the-caribbean-101653


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SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

October 2019 “Naipaulian Aesthetics: From Fact to Fiction in ‘The Killings in Trinidad and

Guerrillas” presented at the 48th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of

Wisconsin at Madison

August 2019 “Caribbean Aesthetics in Guerrillas” presented at CARIFESTA 2019 held at the

University of the West Indies St Augustine

June 2019 “The Question of Reparation in the work of Earl Lovelace” presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association held at Brown University Rhode

Island USA

November 2018 – “The View from the Shoulders on which I Stand: On Ryhaan Shah’s A

Silent Life” presented at the 25th Anniversary Celebrations of the Institute of Gender and

Development Studies The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus

September 2017 – ‘ISBN: Caribbean Theory and Faction’ presented at the 36th Annual West

Indian Literature Conference, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

May 2017 – ‘Interrogation of “Common Sense” in Ralph de Boissiere’s Rum and Coca-Cola’

presented at the second annual Stuart Hall conference The University of the West Indies,

Mona campus


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October 2015 – ‘Under the Sign of Unhappiness: Future Theoretical Directions for Reading

the Naipauls’ Writing’ presented at the conference Seepersad and Sons: Naipaulian Creative

Synergies at the UWI St Augustine campus

May 2015 – ‘Beyond Words: The Mixed-up Life of the Indo-Caribbean Woman’ presented at

the Indian Diaspora Conference hosted by the Department of History at the UWI St Augustine

campus

November 2014: ‘Hinduism in Caribbean Literature: Moments with V. S. Naipaul’ presented

at the annual International Conference on Caribbean Literature (ICCL) Curacao

March 2013: ‘Joining the Calls for Reparations for Enslavement: Earl Lovelace’s Call in Salt’

presented at the Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies at IUPUI,

Indianapolis, Indiana

October 2012: ‘The Nation in the Literary Imagination: A Question for Human Dignity’

presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the West Indian Literature Conference ‘Imagined

Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean’

Hosted by: Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Miami Coral Gables,

Miami, Florida

May 2012: ‘Antyesthi Samskara: Messages from Experiences of Death’ Indian Diaspora

Conference hosted by Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) in St Vincent

June 2011: ‘Hum na Jani; Kuch na Bol: Being and Becoming Indo-Caribbean’ Global South

Asian Diaspora Conference, UWI, St Augustine


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April 2011: ‘Kathaa: A New Research Methodology’ New Geographies: Globalization

Conference. University of the West Indies St Augustine

June 2010: ‘Indo-Caribbean Women on the Political Landscape’ 29th West Indian Literature

Conference, University of Guyana, Georgetown Campus

April 2007: ‘The Cultural Revolution of Technology in the English Language Foundation

Programme: A SWOT Analysis’ SOE Biennial Conference, UWI, St Augustine

May 2005 – ‘Between Ariel and Caliban: Caribbean Cultural and Political Identity Theories’

Conference on Globalisation, University of Suriname

March 2003 – ‘Racism and Political Trauma in For the Love of My Name’ West Indian

Literature Conference, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine

Sept. 2002 – ‘Did the Precipice Move with the House?: Reconstruction of the IndoCaribbean

Home and Family’ Conference at the University of Guyana, Berbice campus.

March 2002 – ‘The Imbrication of the Victorian Myth of the Family in The Mystic Masseur’

21st West Indian Literature Conference at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill,

Barbados

March 2001 – ‘Born with Cojones: Caribbean Subjectivity in Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace’

20th Annual West Indian Literature Conference at the University of the West Indies, St.

Augustine


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RESEARCH INTERESTS

The making of political and cultural identities particularly in relation to gender and sexuality, racialization and ethnicization, and globalization

The present in view of the trauma of postcolonial/ modern history

Literature and theory and their epistemological impact for social and ideological change in

the twenty-first century and beyond

Neuroscience and Literature: Exploring mutual concerns and contributions of each to each

Narrative construction and humanness

Research methodologies: Indigenous technologies, action research, discourse analysis

WORK EXPERIENCE

September 2000 – Present:

Lecturer and Academic Adviser: Department of Literary, Cultural and

Communication Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education, the University of

the West Indies, St Augustine


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POSTGRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Taught students enrolled in:

Master of Arts (MA)

• Literatures in English

• Cultural Studies

• Spanish

• French

Master of Fine Arts

(MFA)

• Creative Writing (Fiction)

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)


• Cultural Studies

• French

• Spanish

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


• French

• Spanish


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Postgraduate Courses Taught:

(For course details not already suggested in course titles, see:

http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dlcc/LIEPG.asp

Modern Cultural and Critical Theory

Caribbean Poetics

Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory

Postmodern Literature and Theory

Postcolonial Literature and Theory

West Indian Literature –Special Topics: History, Society, Politics and Systems of

Human Categorization

Modules delivered in the following courses:

Dynamics of Caribbean Culture

Theory and Conceptualization of Culture

Debates in Caribbean Cultural Identity

Research Methods in Literary Discourse

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SUPERVISION

Literatures in English PhD dissertation:

Shamanism, Quantum Physics and Caribbean Social Realities in Wilson

Harris’s Theoretical and Creative Oeuvre (transferred)

Translations of the Raamaayan in Selected Contemporary Prose Fiction (ongoing)

Metaphysical fiction and the Postcolonial World (ongoing)

http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dlcc/LIEPG.asp


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Cultural Studies MPhil dissertations

The Role of Play in Early Adolescence (graduated)

The Preservation of Indigenous Rituals and Traditions in the Caribbean and

Latin America (transferred)

Literatures in English MPhil dissertations:

The Divided Self in the Work of Caribbean Writers. (graduated)

Negotiating Indo-Trinidadian Identity in the work of Ismith Khan (ongoing)

Literatures in English MA dissertations:

A Quest for the Intangible: An Analysis of the Shamanic Journey in Wilson

Harris’s The Guyana Quartet (graduated with distinction)

The Postmodern Caribbean Subject in V.S. Naipaul’s, A Way in the World; Wilson

Harris’s, Palace of the Peacock and Nalo Hokinson’s, Midnight Robber (graduated with

distinction)

Karma, Sectarianism and Education: Evolution of the Indo-Trinidadian

Novel (graduated)

Key Concepts: Translation, Migration and Diaspora in Salman Rushdie’s

Midnight’s Children (graduated)


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The Caribbean Postmodern in the Postmodern Caribbean: A Study of the works of

Oonya Kempadoo, Raymond Ramcharitar and Robert Antoni (graduated)

Danger Zones: Representing IndoCaribbean Sexualities outside the Box (graduated

with distinction)

Use and Abuse of Power in the Harry Potter Series (graduated with distinction)

‘Discovering’ the ‘Indian’ Man in Trinidadian Literature and Culture (working)

Nihilism and Contemporary Caribbean Thought and Culture (working)

The Autobiographical Impulse in Selected Indo-Trinidadian Women’s

Literature (working)

Reflections on Masculinity in the Indian Diaspora in V. S. Naipaul’s Oeuvre

(working)

SELECTED POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINARS AND

THESES EXAMINED

1. Within and Beyond the Nation: Reading the Postnationalist Condition in

Selected Works of Salman Rushdie

2. Caribbean Postmodern-Speculative Fiction: From Twentieth Century

Writers to the Contemporary Writings of Raymond Ramcharitar and


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Rabindranath Maharaj

3. Christianity, Imperialism and Being in the Novels of George Lamming

4. Spirit Presences in Selected Caribbean Literary Works

5. Communicating a ‘Sound’ Identity: (Con)Fusing the ‘Indo Soundscape’

through Chutney as a Culture of Remix in Trinidad

6. Portraits of Sita: Tulsidasji’s Ramacharitramanas and Caribbean Literature

7. The Caribbean Zenana: Agoraphobia in IndoCaribbean Women’s Literature

8. From Chaucer to Walcott: Postcolonial Re-interpretations

9. Sexuality and the Female Experience in Caribbean Women’s Poetry.

10. History and Landscape in V. S. Naipaul’s short stories

11. Psychological Trauma and Lack of Self in West Indian Literature

12. Representations of Fluid Sexuality in West Indian Texts: A Study of

Works by Patricia Powell, Shani Mootoo and Michelle Cliff

13. Through the Eyes of a Child: Analysis of Childhood Experiences in

selected Trinidadian novels

14. Alienation and Alien Nation – the treatment of alienation and womanhood in

Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber and Brown Girl in The Ring

15. A Critical Study of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series

16. Women as their own enemy: Oppression in the Short Stories of Ana Lydia Vega.

17. The Role of Tradition in Selected Works of Federico Garcia Lorca

18. Culture as a Site for Critical Pedagogy and the Transformation of

Consciousness in the English Speaking Caribbean

19. A History of Chutney Music in Trinidad and Tobago

20. Women in Trinidad and Tobago Calypso: A Missing Generation


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21. Eliot, Lawrence, Brathwaite, Walcott: Versions of Modernism

22. The Psychodynamics of Gender and Sexuality: Harold Pinter's Dramatic Works

23. An exploration of the theme of violence in the works of Gisèle Pineau

and Edwidge Danticat

24. Comparison of the opposing world views of C. S. Lewis’ The Chronicles

of Narnia and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy

25. The Romance Hero in 19th Century West Indian Literature

26. Space and Time in the Construction of the Divided Self in Selected Fiction of

V.S. Naipaul

27. Construction of Cultural Identity in the Progeny of Afro-Indo

Marriages in Trinidad

28. Pegasus and Martin Carter’s Vision of Restorative Justice

29. African Diasporic Traditions in Caribbean Music: Jamaica’s Mento and

Tobago’s Tambrin

UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Taught and examined the following courses to students enrolled in a number of faculties

and degree programmes

Courses delivered:

(See further course details not suggested in titles at

http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dlcc/LIEUG.asp):

1. Literatures in English Courses

http://sta.uwi.edu/fhe/dlcc/LIEUG.asp)


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Introduction to Poetry

Introduction to Prose Fiction

Introduction to Drama

British Poetry: Donne to Byron

Key Issues in Literary Criticism

Twentieth Century Literary Theory

Introduction to West Indian Poetry A

Introduction to West Indian Poetry B: Selected West Indian Poets

West Indian Prose Fiction

Shakespeare I

The Origins and Development of American Literary Prose

African Literatures in English II: Drama and Poetry

Advanced Seminar in West Indian Literature A

Advanced Seminar in West Indian Literature B

Tradition and Change in Modern Literature A

Indian Literature in English

Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Gender, Violence and Trauma in Discourse

2. Foundation Courses

English for Academic Purposes

Argument and Report Writing

Writing about Literature


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Scientific and Technical Writing

Academic English for Research Purposes

Caribbean Studies Project/undergraduate dissertation

Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of the West Indies, St

Augustine Part-time Lecturer

Course: Caribbean Society, Culture, Literature and the Arts

Designed and delivered this course to students of Kalamazoo College who do one of their

compulsory foreign immersion experiences at the UWI St Augustine. The course is intended

to develop an understanding of the complexity of Caribbean socio-cultural issues embedded

in Caribbean arts.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Equity in education

Education for the development of critical, disciplinary, socio-cultural, ideological and

historical awareness

Development of effective techniques for feedback to students

Diversification of methods of assessment

Knowledge management and the use of ICT in education


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RECENT SELF-DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

1. Training in Postgraduate Supervision conducted by the Postgraduate Research Unit

2. OER - training by CETL

3. Creative Commons Licenses - training by CETL

4. Game-based learning - training by CETL

5. Ted-Ed Video Lessons - training by CETL

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

Website Development and Management

1) DLCCS Website management – see sta.uwi.edu/dlccs

2) Development of a V. S. Naipaul Memorial website – see linesoflifenaipaul.com

Reviewer for the following journals:

1. Tout Moun: A Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies

2. Journal of West Indian Literature

3. Caribbean Quarterly

Committees

1. FHE Prizes Committee Member for FHE Prize Giving Ceremony.

2. Semester II 2018-19 - coordinator of the postgraduate Seminars and Inter-

departmental Staff Lunchtime Seminars.

3. April 2019 to present – Undergraduate programme coordinator


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4. Directed the re-branding and activities of the students’ campus book club re-named

The Pelican Book Club

Conference/Academic Event Organization:

1. Organized and chaired the first Annual V. S. Naipaul Memorial Lecture delivered by Ngugi

wa Thiong’o on August 17th 2019

2. Organized and chaired a Memorial on the passing of V. S. Naipaul on August 17th 2018

3. As Secretary of the NGO Friends of Mr Biswas arranged a commemoration of the life and

work of SC Dana Seetahal in collaboration with the Law Association held at their offices on

Frederick Street Port-of-Spain

4. Participated in the organization of conferences hosted by the Faculty of Humanities and

Education, Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies from 2000 to

present

Duties included:

Coordination of activities of the

Secretariat Panel Chair

Panellist

Performance of a variety of writing chores – call for papers, newspaper articles, letters of

invitation and for funding etc –

Currently being undertaken for:

1) Conference on the Literature of Trinidad and Tobago since 1980 to be

held in September 2020


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2) Conference on the Indian Diaspora and the 100th Anniversary of the

End of Indentureship to be held in May 2020 at the Divali Nagar

Recently accomplished as:

1) a member of the organizing committee for a conference entitled Seepersad

and Sons: Naipaulian Creative Synergies held from Wednesday 28th October to

Friday 30th October 2015

2) member of the organizing committee for a conference entitled The Global

Indian Diaspora 2016

3) member of the organizing committee for the 36th Annual West Indian

Literature Conference to be held from 4-7th October 2017

5. Participated in organization of the annual departmental event entitled ‘Dialogues’ at which

departmental publications are publicized and celebrated:

Duties included:

Presentation of book and film reviews

6. Participated in organization of the UWI St Augustine’s celebrations of the three Caribbean

Nobel Laureates undertaken through the Principal’s office over the period 2005 – 2007: Derek

Walcott, V. S. Naipaul and Arthur Lewis

Duties included:

Performed a wide variety of duties ranging from ushering to fielding and sorting

questions for the laureates from the public audience

7. Departmental Outreach Activities


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Duties included:

School Visits – St Benedict’s College March 2019

Faculty Open Day – May 2019 DCFA compound Cheeseman Avenue St Augustine –

preparation of background videos and manning of the desk

Co-coordinator and chair in 2013 of the annual departmental outreach to secondary

schools begun in 2012 and participation in organization of outreach otherwise

Coordinator of the annual Campus Literature Week 2012 including lunch time

readings and Gala close and have participated in organization as directed by

coordinator in other years

Invited lectures delivered to a number of schools, including St Augustine Girls High

School and ASJA Girls High School on CAPE set texts

8. Other services rendered

Member of the departmental committee on intellectual property rights and plagiarism

policy 2006-2007

One of the associate editors of the edited collection Caribbean Dynamics

Editor of reports coming out of the Business Development Office UWI St Augustine

between 2003-2008


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Interviewed Ian McDonald, Lakshmi Persaud and Rachel Manley over the 2011-

2014 period for the department’s open-access podcast series on Caribbean writers

– the brainchild of colleague Giselle Rampaul (See for example

http://www.spaceswords.com/?page_id=1861)

Ongoing participation in the Annual Bocas LitFest – a celebration of new books

and writers at the National Library (NALIS) – established in 2011

TERTIARY EXPERIENCES APART FROM THOSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE

WEST INDIES

A. September 2008 – July 2010

Part-time Lecturer: College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and

Tobago (COSTAATT)

San Fernando Campus

Bishop Anstey Campus Port-of-

Spain Trinity East Campus

Central Campus Melville Lane Port-of-

Spain Courses delivered:

o COMM 117 – Communication Studies I

o ENGL 200 – Comparative Literature

https://mail.sta.uwi.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=AkEJvsjDxUeRJAMJFM9oJeZ8_jH2aNEINZSnrfCCrF997LwzKfAAViTEjhEcc9TFm0LY_D-9BhU.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.spaceswords.com%2f%3fpage_id%3d1861


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B. September 2002 – August 2006

External Examiner/Moderator: University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) (Previously

Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Technology)

Courses examined:

Comm 238 – Technical Communication I

ITEC 3372 – Communication in Science and Technology

Assess syllabi, evaluate marking of scripts and provide feedback and evaluations to the

coordinator of the Communications programme

C. September 2007 - August 2011

Caribbean Examinations

Council

Examiner

D. September 2000 - August 2011 (apart from periods on secondment to UWI or on study leave)

Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago - Ministry of Education

(GORTT-MOE) Valencia Secondary School

Vice-Principal and Principal (Ag)

Managed the human and material resources of the department

Oversight of the use of the school by the community for adult education and other

purposes Member of the District Management Project

Financial Management


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Fund raising Management

Professional Development Management

Host of the Parent-Teacher Organisation and its activities

Head - Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Taught English Language and Literatures to all forms

Managed the human and material resources of the

department

Ensured the efficient and effective delivery of the English and Spanish syllabi

Ensured the acquisition and development of teaching resources

Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) Staff Representative

GRANTS AND AWARDS

6. The University of the West Indies St Augustine Post-graduate Scholarship 2001-

2008

7. NEMLA Award 2011

8. Campus Research and Publication Award 2018-2019 for the project entitled

Lines of Life: The Naipauls of Trinidad


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PUBLIC SERVICE

1. Served as a panelist at the NCIC Indian Arrival Day celebrations on the subject

‘The Role of the Arts in Diaspora and Nation Building’ - May 2019

2. Sat as a Judge on Thursday 11th October 2018 at the Southern Academy

of the Performing Arts (SAPA) Poetry Challenge Finale for Milwaz

Productions

3. Lecture delivered to all HODs/designates for all English Language and

Literatures department at all Secondary Schools at the Rudranath Capildeo

Learning Resource Centre in Couva on May 22nd 2019

4. Secretary of the NGO Friends of Mr Biswas with responsibilities for community

and school outreach, publications, fund raising for property maintenance and

refurbishment, establishment of the Naipaul House as a United Nations Memory of

the World Site and as a site for cultural tourism in Trinidad and Tobago – Most

recent activity - Arranged a commemoration of the life and work of SC Dana

Seetahal in collaboration with the Law Association held at their offices on

Frederick Street Port-of-Spain

5. Chair of the quarterly Literary Evenings established by the Indo-Caribbean

Heritage Library which was launched to mark the 175th Anniversary of Indian

Arrival


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6. Invited lectures to persons undergoing treatment for social and personal rehabilitation at:

a. the HEAL Substance Abuse Prevention and

Rehabilitation Centre, Milton Village, Couva

b. Golden Grove Prison, Golden Grove Road, Arouca

c. Youth Training Centre Golden Grove Road, Arouca

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (IGEL)

Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW)

Modern Language Association

Northeastern Modern Language Association

(NEMLA) Caribbean Studies Association

National Council for Black Studies English Teachers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago

CARIBAPAN – Caribbean Association for Regional Policy Development on Addiction


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REFERENCES

Professor Emeritus Kenneth Ramchand

(previously Professor Department of Liberal

Arts The University of the West Indies, St

Augustine) 2, Riverdale Terrace

St Joseph-Maracas, Trinidad

[email protected] or

[email protected]

(1-868) 724-5203

Professor Emeritus Brinsley Samaroo

University of Trinidad and Tobago

(previously Professor Department of

History

The University of the West Indies, St

Augustine) Santa Margarita Circular

St Augustine

[email protected]

(1-868) 662-1128 or 365-8475

Dr David Rampersad

Senior Adviser to the Vice-

Chancellor Business Development

Office

The University of the West Indies, St

Augustine [email protected]

(1-868) 334-3722 or 685-7825






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Dr Maarit Forde

Head of

Department

Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication

Studies University of the West Indies

St Augustine

Trinidad and

Tobago

[email protected]

Office phone (868) 662 2002, ext 83033

Mobile phone (868) 306-319


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