 Education
M.A., English, Baylor University, Texas, 1987
Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin, 1992
Teaching Experience
1987-1992, Assistant Instructor, Department of English,
University of Texas at Austin
1992- Department of English, Tulane University. Tenure and promotion, May 1998
Selected Publications
Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning
of History (The University of Michigan Press, 1996)
"Melancholic Women: The Intellectual Hysteric(s) in Nervous
Conditions," Research in African Literatures 26.2 (Summer 1995): 130-39
"Invented Histories: Cultural Production in George
Lamming’s Season of Adventure" in Reading the Shape of the World:
Toward and International Cultural Studies, ed. Henry Schwarz (Westview 1996): 167-82
"Postmodern Utopias and Expressive Countercultures: A
Caribbean Context," Research in African Literatures 27.4 (Winter 1996): 71-87
"Homing Instincts: Immigrant Nostalgia and Gender
Politics in Browngirl, Brownstones" in Caribbean Romances: The Politics of
Regional Representation, ed. Belinda Edmondson (The University of Virginia Press,
1999)
"Creolization, Orality and Nation Language in the
Caribbean" in A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Henry Schwarz and
Sangeeta Ray (Blackwell Press, forthcoming)
Invited Lectures
"Melancholic Women: Post/Colonial Trauma and the
Intellectual," The Ohio State University, Columbus, February 17, 1994
"Pedagogy and the Performative: Vodoun and Obeah in
the Diasporic Consciousness," The Ohio State University, Columbus, May 12, 1994
Selected Conference Papers
"‘Bad, Mad, and Embruted’: Caribbean Bodies
in Nineteenth- Century Discourse," The Third Annual Conference on 18th- and
19th-Century British Women Writers, East Lansing, Michigan, April 15, 1994
"Third World Feminisms and the Politics of Exclusion:
Domitila Speaks," South Central Women’s Studies Association, New Orleans, March
12, 1994
"The Empire Stays Back: Deus Ex Machina in E.M.Forster’s
A Passage to India," The International Conference on the Hideous and the Sublime,
Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 1994
"From Slave Ship to Cruise Ship: Repetition and
Difference in the Caribbean," MLA, Chicago, December 28, 1995
"Murder, He Wrote: The Politics of Violence in
Ngugi’s Novels," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Conference,"
Columbus, Ohio, April 28, 1996. Panel Chair, "Narrating the Postcolonial"
"Womanist Traditions in Green Cane and Juicy
Flotsam: Short Stories by Caribbean Women," Fifth International Conference on the
Short Story in English, New Orleans, June 29, 1998
"Insubordination and Intertextuality in Maryse Conde’s
I Tituba, Black Witch of Salem," SCMLA, New Orleans, November 13, 1998
"Postcolonial Parameters: The Experience of
Postcolonial Theory," paper to be read at RMMLA, Santa Fe, October 16, 1999
"The Importance of Being Earnest: Professionalism and
Minorities," MLA’s Roundtable on Departmental Culture, Chicago, December 29,
1999
Research and teaching interests
Caribbean literature, cultural studies, feminist theory,
postcolonial theory
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