Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Academic Staff
The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics has an energetic and competent team of academics, with some of the most professional and courteous support staff on campus. Our dedicated teaching team comprises both full-time and part-time academic staff.
Our staff hails from a number of countries including Trinidad & Tobago, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, France including Martinique, Jamaica, Mauritius, St Lucia, Spain, Venezuela and the UK.
We also welcome a number of visiting lecturers.
Full-time Academic Staff:
Meet our full-time academic staff members, listed alphabetically and by Discipline:
English | French | Linguistics | Portuguese | Spanish
Senior Lecturer – Linguistics; Head of Department
Lecturer and Coordinator – English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Instructor II - English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Instructor III –English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Lenore GREAVES
Instructor II –English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Jannine HORSFORD
Instructor II –English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Instructor II –English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Instructor II – English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Lecturer – English Language Foundation Unit (ELFU)
Dr Savrina CHINIEN
Lecturer – French Language; French Literature; Coordinator – French (UG);
Instructor II – French Language
Lecturer – French Language
Professor Elizabeth WALCOTT-HACKSHAW
Professor – French Literature; Coordinator – French (PG)
LINGUISTICS (including ELLE, SLP and CSLI)
Dr Benjamin BRAITHWAITE (on sabbatical leave 2018-2019)
Lecturer – Linguistics
Lecturer – Speech-Language Pathology; Coordinator – Linguistics (UG)
Lecturer – Linguistics; Coordinator – Linguistics (PG)
Honorary Research Fellow – Linguistics
Senior Lecturer – Linguistics
Lecturer – Linguistics
Professor Valerie YOUSSEF (retired)
Professor – Linguistics
Heather Mac Intosh-Simon
Instructor I – Brazilian Studies
Lecturer – Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature; Coordinator – Spanish (PG)
Natalia CARDONA VILLA
Research/Language Assistant – Spanish Language (UWI/ICETEX)
Instructor I – Spanish Language
Instructor II – Spanish Language
Visiting Foreign Language Lecturer – Spanish Language (AECID)
Instructor II – Spanish Language; Coordinator – Spanish (UG)
Lecturer – Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature
Senior Lecturer – Spanish Language
