Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
LINGUISTICS STAFF
Who is a Linguist?
Linguists don't learn languages (though we often do some language learning); linguists learn ABOUT languages, of which there are some 6,909. Polyglots are the professional language learners/users (also called linguists) who spend their time and energy learning one or more languages.
Linguists (of the discipline of linguistics) are professional language analysts or language scientists (once called "linguisticians"), who dabble in many languages and focus on their structure and usage in society around the world.
ACADEMIC STAFF
FULL-TIME
Dr Ben BRAITHWAITE (PhD Newcastle). Nuuchahnulth Grammar, Trinidad & Tobago Sign Language
Dr Kathy-Ann DRAYTON (MSc Northeastern, PhD UWI) Speech-Language Pathology, Child Language Acquisition, Clinical Linguistics.
Dr Sandra EVANS (MA Toulouse-le-Mirail, PhD UWI). Forensic Linguistics
Dr Jo-Anne S. FERREIRA (Dip UFRJ, PhD UWI). Anthropological Linguistics (Portuguese in the Caribbean), Language Documentation and Revitalisation (French Creole (Patois) in Trinidad, Venezuela and Brazil), Sociophonetics and Bible translation
Dr Renée FIGUERA (BA, Dip TESOL, MEd). Critical Language and Literacy Studies, Language Education, TESOL (Teacher Education), Sociohistorical Linguistics of Literary Discourse
Dr Gerald STELL (PhD). Language variation, Intergroup communication, intergroup processes, Ethnicity, race and language variation, Ethnicity, race and discourse, Code-switching, Multilingualism, Creole languages and African languages
PROFESSORS
Prof Valerie C. YOUSSEF (PhD UWI) (retired). Child Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Tobagonian English Creole, ICE - T&T
Prof Barbara LALLA (BA, PhD UWI)
Professor Emerita Language and Literature (Linguistics and Literatures in English)
ASSOCIATE FULL-TIME STAFF
Dr Béatrice BOUFOY-BASTICK (PhD UWI) (Modern Languages and TESOL)
Dr Beverly-Anne CARTER (PhD UWI) (Centre for Language Learning)
Dr Keren M. CUMBERBATCH (PhD UWI). Jamaican Sign Language and Jamaican Country Sign
Dr Joseph T. FARQUHARSON (MPhil Cambridge, PhD UWI). Jamaican Lexicography, Cultural Studies (Dance Hall), Ethnolinguistics
Dr Winford JAMES (PhD UWI) (School of Education)
Dr María LANDA BUIL (MPhil Complutense, PhD) (Modern Languages)
Eric MAITREJEAN (MA Lyon II) (Modern Languages)
Prof Ian E. ROBERTSON (BA, PhD UWI) (Evening University)
Dr. Jairo SÁNCHEZ GALVIS (PhD, MA Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Dr Geraldine SKEETE (BA, PhD UWI) (Literatures in English, Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies)
FOUNDATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE WRITING PROGRAMME
Meet our Foundation English Language Unit staff (Academic and Administrative).
PART-TIME
LINGUISTICS (BA Linguistics and Certificate in Speech-Language Pathology)
Ryan DURGASINGH (MPhil UWI)
Janielle GARCIA (MPhil UWI)
Byron JONES (BA, MA UWI)
Alicia LAMB (BA UWI)
Ferne-Louanne REGIS (PhD UWI)
Bryan RODRIGUES
Jean-Louis ROBINSON (BA UWI, MA)
Shad SEATON (BA, MA UWI)
PART-TIME
EDUCATION (BA English Language and Literature with Education)
Kitty AL-HOSEIN GARCIA (MA)
Debby BOODHAN (BA)
Elia GRANT-FRASER (MA)
Debra INDAR (MA)
Natasha MATHISON (MA)
Debbie MELVILLE (MEd)
Denzil NOEL (MPhil)
Ulric PERSAD (MEd)
Dev POOMA (MA)
Nicha SELVON-RAMKISSOON (PhD UWI)
Michelle TAYLOR (MBA)
RETIRED AND FORMER MEMBERS OF STAFF
Prof Mervyn ALLEYNE (PhD Strasbourg)
Prof Lawrence CARRINGTON
Dr Ross GRAHAM (University of Florida, Gainsville)
Dr Otelemate HARRY (UWI, Mona)
Helen PYNE-TIMOTHY
Dr Denis SOLOMON (PhD UWI)
Prof Donald WINFORD (PhD York)
Click to see the postgraduate research we supervise (past and current) as well as a list of completed Master's and Doctoral theses and dissertations.
