Lisa Outar
Lisa Outar researches and teaches Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature as well as, more broadly, postcolonial literature. She has a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago. She specializes in writings by and about Indo-Caribbeans. Her work has appeared in The South Asian Review, The Caribbean Journal of Education, South Asian History and Culture, Stabroek News, South Asian Diaspora and in the edited collections, Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar West Indian Literature; Coral Identities: Essays on Indo-Caribbean Literature and South Asian Transnationalisms. She is currently completing a manuscript about the production of the category of Indianness within discourses of nationalism, creolization and diasporic identity in the Caribbean and its various diasporas. She can be reached at leoutar@gmail.com
