Paula Eleanor Morgan. Senior Lecturer Head, Department of Liberal Arts. The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

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1 Paula Eleanor Morgan Senior Lecturer Head, Department of Liberal Arts The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Trinidad & Tobago Office Department of Liberal Arts, Rm. 17A Faculty of Humanities and Education The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Phone: (868) , Ext Fax: (868) Education 1996 Diploma in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) PhD English Dissertation: A Cross-cultural Study of the Novel of Black Female Development: A Comparative Reading of Women Writers from Africa, The Caribbean and North America MPhil English Thesis: The Love Relationship: A Study of Male - Female Interaction in Selected West Indian Authors BA Upper Second Class Hons. Professional Experience 2007 Present Coordinator, Cultural Studies Graduate Programme Coordinator, Literatures in English Deputy Dean, Distance and Outreach Curriculum Development Consultant, Lome IV /CARIFORUM Caribbean University Level Programme (Cave Hill, Barbados) Curriculum Development Specialist (Ag.), Distance Education Centre Lecturer, Part-Time Lecturer, Assistant Lecturer. Department of Liberal Arts 1

2 Recent Publications Academic Books and Journal Collections The Culture of Violence. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Vol 3: 2010 UWI Institute of Gender and Development Studies Online Journal St Augustine. Edited with Valerie Youssef. Writing Rage: Violence in Caribbean Discourse. Mona: The University of the West Indies Press With Valerie Youssef. Winner of the UWI Press award for Best Interdisciplinary Book. May 2008 Caribbean Literature in a Global Context. St Augustine: UWI Faculty of Humanities and Education & Lexicon Trinidad Ltd Edited with Funso Aiyejina. Writing About Literature - A Self-Instructional Course. St Augustine: UWI School of Continuing Studies: (252 pp. My contribution 220 pp). With Barbara Lalla. Language Proficiency for Tertiary Level: A Self-Instructional Course for Caribbean Students. St Augustine: UWI Distance Education Centre (430 pp) Refereed Book Chapters Contemporary Plague and Discursive Minefield: Literary Representations of HIV/AIDS in Caribbean Writings. In Sex Power & Taboo. Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond. Eds. Dorothy Roberts, Rhoda Reddock, Diane Douglas and Sandra Reid, Kingston, Miami: Ian Randle Publishers (pp ) Bordering on the Transgressive: (Re)constructing Cultural Identity in Indo- Caribbean Fictions. In Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon. Eds. Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla. Kingston: UWI Press (pp ). With a Tassa Blending Calypso and Cultural Identity in Indo-Caribbean Fiction. In Music. Memory. Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination. Ed. Sandra Paquet, Patricia Saunders, Stephen Stuempfle, Mona: Ian Randle Press (pp ). Historicizing Islands in the Sun: Nation and Beyond in Lalla s Arch of Fire and Brodber s Jane and Louisa. Ed. Moira Inghilleri. In Swinging Her Breasts at History. London: Mango Publishing (pp ). From a Distance: Territory, Subjectivity and Identity Construction in Mootoo s Cereus Blooms at night. In Caribbean Literature in a Global Context. Ed Funso Aiyejina and Paula Morgan. St Augustine: UWI Faculty of Humanities and Education and Lexicon Trinidad Ltd (pp ) Under Women's Eyes - Literary Constructs of Afro-Caribbean Masculinity. In Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses. Ed. Rhoda Reddock. Mona: The University of the West Indies Press (pp ) 2

3 The New International Configuration: Who are the Evil Ones? Co-authored with Valerie Youssef. In The Caribbean in the International Arena: The Implications of Global Instability and Conflict. San Juan: Lexicon (pp ) Dark and Unfathomable Beyond Control : Women Writing the Deviant Male. In The Centre of Remembrance: Memory and Caribbean Women s Literature. Ed. Joan Anim-Addo. London: Mango Publishing (pp ) The Risk of (Re)membering my Name: Reading Lucy and Our Sister Killjoy as Travel Narratives." In Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Ed. Aza Ado and Gay Wilentz. New Jersey: Africa World Press (pp ) Refereed Journal Articles No Money No Love : Representations of the Social Impact of Poverty in Media, Popular and Literary Discourse. In The Culture of Violence. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Vol 3: ONLINE Remembering our Scattered Skeleton: Inscribing the Zong Massacre in Caribbean Literature. Lucayos Journal of College of the Bahamas Fashioning Women for Brave New Worlds: Evolving Literary Representation of Caribbean Women. Standpoint. Feminist Africa 7. With a Tassa Blending: Calypso and Cultural identity in Indo- Caribbean Fiction. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Fall Like Bush Fire in My Arms : Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance. Journal of Popular Culture 22: 2003 (pp ). Homecomings Without Home: An Intertextual Reading of Wide Sargasso Sea and No Telephone to Heaven. Special Issue on Jean Rhys. Ed. Mary Lou Emory Journal of Caribbean Literatures Vol. 111 No (pp ). East / West Indian / Woman / Other: At the Crossroads of Gender and Ethnicity. Ma Comere Journal of Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Vol (pp ). Towards Learner Autonomy in the Teaching of Writing: A UWI Study. Co- authored with Valerie Youssef. Caribbean Curriculum UWI: St Augustine. Vol.7 No (pp ). What a woman oughta be an' do. Female Identity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Bangladesh Journal of American Studies: 7& Bangladesh: Dhaka University (pp ). 3

4 Courses Taught Undergraduate Academic Writing for Different Disciplines: Writing about Literature African/Diaspora Women's Narratives African American Women's Writing Elements of Drama Fundamentals of Written English Gender Violence and Trauma History of Literary Criticism Introduction to Poetry Introduction to Prose Fiction Introduction to Women s Studies: Theoretical Concepts and Sources of Knowledge (team teaching) Key Issues in Literary Criticism Language, Logic and Composition Language for Analysis Language, Sex and Gender (team teaching) Modern American Literary Prose Report Writing and Documentation Twentieth Century Literary Theory Use of English West Indian Short Story (Tutorials) West Indian Prose Fiction (Tutorials) West Indian Women Writers Graduate Courses Culture Criticism and Society Modern Cultural and Critical Theory Dynamics of Caribbean Culture (course coordinator) Methods of Inquiry in Culture Debates in Caribbean Cultural identity Theory and Conceptualization of Culture Women s Writing and Feminist Theory 4

5 Graduate Supervision - Degrees Awarded In women s literature, gender studies and cultural studies PhD Vijay Maharaj. An Indo Caribbean Katha PhD (2009) Carol Redhead. Artistry as Redemptive Force in the Work of Toni Morrison. PhD (2004) MPhil Carol La Chapelle. From Mc Burnie to Messiah: The Evolution of Caribbean Dance Forms. MPhil (2008) Devonson La Mothe. Religion as a Vehicle for Bondage or Liberation in Selected Caribbean Writers. MPhil (2006) Galicia Blackman. Myth-taking and Myth-making in Selected Prose by West Indian Women Writers. MPhil (2005) Wayne Riley. Women s Ordination and the Seventh Day Adventist Church. MPhil (2005) MA Kwynn Johnson. Red Appropriated. First Cultural Studies Examination by Visual Arts Exhibition. MA (2010) Lynda Gibson Hendrickson. Voice Statement and Echo in the work of Jamaica Kincaid and Merle Hodge. (2004) Gina Joseph. Embracing Cyberculture. MA (2003). Natasha Mathison. Knowledge and Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison (2003) Paulette Reefer. Caribbean Romances (Awarded) Under Examination Marielle Barrow. Evoking the Sacred in Caribbean Space: A Case study of Sacred Space at Clifton Pier and the artistry of Antonius Roberts (MPhil) Veronica Farrel. Displacement and Dispossession in the Writing of Jean Rhys. (MPhil) Nancy Herrera. From Orisha Yard to Juillard: Peter London s Journey-Stages, Frameworks and Pathways. (MPhil) 5

6 Research Activity and Interests Gender trauma and violence in Caribbean Discourse Women s Literature of the Indian and African Diaspora Pedagogical Approaches for teaching Caribbean culture Professional Affiliations Caribbean Studies Association Global Leadership Interlink, Congress WBN Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) Congress Corporate, Congress WBN Council Member, NorthGate College 6