ACADEMIC STAFF

Communication Studies

Arnold Corneal
Part-time Lecturer
B. A. (University of South Florida), M. A. (Nova South East University)
c/o Ext. 2035

Valerie Griffith
Part-time Lecturer
Dip. Nursery Nursing (Hackney College), Dip. Higher Education, B. A. (Hons.) (London), PGCE (Greenwich)
c/o Ext. 2035

Josieann Richards
Part-time Lecturer
B. A. (Washington State University)
c/o Ext. 2035

Godfrey Steele
Lecturer
B.A., Dip. Ed., M.A., Ph.D.(UWI)
Ext. 3038
Major Research Interests: Doctor-patient Communication; Health Communication Assessment; Communication Curriculum Development

English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

Cynthia Carrington
Part-time Lecturer
B.A., Dip. Ed., TESOL (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036 or 2035

Glenda Leung
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (Florida), Dip. TESOL (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035 or 2343
MajorResearch Interests: Development of TEFL materials

Kathleen Wong
Part-time Lecturer
Cert. Ed. (Cambridge), Dip. Lit. (Bordeaux), RSA Dip. TEFL (Cambridge)
c/o Ext. 2035 or 2343
Major Research Interests: Humanistic approaches to Language Learning; Methods and Approaches in TEFLA (TESOL) and Professional Development; Materials Development for EFL Students in Trinidad and Tobago, the Anglican Priesthood, Youth and Theology

Valerie Youssef, , Deputy Dean, Distance and Outreach
Senior Lecturer (Co-ordinator, Linguistics and Communication Studies, and EFL)
B.A. (Reading), M.A. (American Univ. in Cairo), Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3037
Major Research Interests: Language Acquisition and Learning in a Creole Context; Conversational Analysis (focus on gender issues and medical discourse); Descriptive Linguistics; Trinidadian and Tobagonian Verb Systems

French

Beverly-Anne Carter
Lecturer, French Language (Co-ordinator, French Language)
L ès L, L ès L Français Appliqué, M ès L (Université de Franche-Comté à Besançon), Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3034
Major Research Interests: Foreign Language Pedagogy and Methodology; Learner Autonomy; CALL; Francophone Culture; TESOL.

Estelle Chaumont
Foreign Language Instructor, French Language
L ès L (University Royal Halloway), M ès L, M ès L (FLE) (Université Paul Valéry)
c/o Ext. 2035

Eric Maitrejean
Lecturer, French Language
B.A., M.A. in Translation, DESS course (FLE) (Lyon 2)
Ext. 3024
Major Research Interests: Translation; Interpreting; Cross-cultural Differences

Martin Munro
Lecturer
B. A., M. A. (Hons.) Ph.D. (Aberdeen)

Francophone literature and culture, especially of the Caribbean region; Négritude; Créolité; Aimé Césaire; René Depestre; Haitian Literature; Edwidge Danticat; Theories of race;Surrealism; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theory; Writing and exile; comparative literature (especially Caribbean); links between poetry and philosophy; rhythm; exoticism; the postcolonial city.
Ext. 3026

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Lecturer, Literatures in French (Co-ordinator, French Literature); Convenor, Academic Advising Programme.
B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D. (Boston)
Ext. 3024
Major Research Interests: 19th Century French Literature; Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean Authors.

Hindi

Prem Kundra
Lecturer, Hindi Language
B.A. (Hons.), M.A., M. Litt., Ph.D. (Delhi University)
Ext. 3026
Major Research Interests: Modern Hindi humour and satire; Modern Prose and Poetry

Linguistics

Mervyn Alleyne
Professor Emeritus
B.A. (Hons.) (London-UCWI), D.U. (Université de Strasbourg)
Ext. 3040
Major Research Interests: Caribbean Language and Culture

Nathalie Charlery
Part-time Lecturer
B.A., Cert. in Conference Interpretation, M.A. (UAG-Schoelcher)
c/o Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: French Lexicon Creoles, Translation and Interpretation

Keisha Evans
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (Hons.) (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: Cognitive Styles (Field Dependence/independence); Learning strategies as they relate to L2 Learning

Jo-Anne S. Ferreira
Lecturer
B.A. (Hons.), Dip. in Brazilian Indigenous Languages (UFRJ), Ph.D. (Linguistics) (UWI)
Ext. 3029
Major Research Interests: Contact Linguistics (indigenous and immigrant endangered languages); Portuguese language and migration; French-lexicon Creoles; Bible translation

Renée Figuera
Part-time Lecturer
B.A., TESOL (UWI), M.Ed. (Framingham State College)
c/o Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: TESOL, Instructional Design, Applied Linguistics

Hazel Ann Gibbs de Peza
Part-time Lecturer
B.A., M.Phil. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: Creole Development and Usage; Language in Religion; the Spiritual Baptist Faith

Sujin Huggins
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: Language-related Learning Disorders, Models of English presented in Classrom Teaching, Innovations in the Language Curriculum, the Changing Roles/Status of Creole Languages, the Human Capacity for Multilingualism

Barbara Lalla, Head of Department
Professor of Linguistics
B.A., Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3033
Major Research Interests: Jamaican Creole; Linguistic Change; Development of Literary Discourse in the English-official Caribbean; Creole Type and Post-colonial Features of Medieval English Language and Literature

Ian Robertson, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (Hons.), Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 2029/2030
Major Research Interests: Berbice and Skepi Dutch; French-lexicon Creoles; English Language Teaching in Creole Communities; Creole Genesis; Caribbean Oral Traditions; Use of Indigenous Materials in Education

Michelle Wooding
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (Hons.) (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035

Valerie Youssef, Deputy Dean, Distance and Outreach
Senior Lecturer, Linguistics (Co-ordinator, Linguistics and Communication Studies, and EFL)
B.A. (Hons.) (Reading), M.A. (American Univ. in Cairo), Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3037
Major Research Interests: Language Acquisition and Learning in a Creole Context; Conversational Analysis (focus on gender issues and medical discourse); Descriptive Linguistics; Trinidadian and Tobagonian Verb Systems

Literatures in English

Funso Aiyejina
Lecturer (Co-ordinator, Literatures in English, and African and Asian Studies)
B.A. (Ife), M.A. (Acadia), Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3493
Major Research Interests: African/New World African Literatures and Cultures; Creative Writing

Tyrone Ali
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Linguistics and Education within West Indian Literature

Zohorah Ali
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036

Michelle Timothy-Ellis
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (Andrews University) , Dip. Ed., TESOL (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2032

Anson Gonzalez
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (Hons.), M.Phil. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2032

Patricia Ismond
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (UWI), Ph.D. (Kent)
Ext. 3025
Major Research Interests: Caribbean Literature, particularly the works of Derek Walcott

Wayne Kublalsingh
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI) , M.Phil. (UWI), M.A. (Columbia University), Ph.D. (Oxford)
c/o Ext. 2032
Major Research Interests: Literary Theory, Publishing, Children's Education

Paula Morgan
Lecturer
B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Dip. TESOL (UWI)
Ext. 2035
Major Research Interests: Women's Literature; Caribbean Literature; African Diaspora; Distance Education

Lorna Pilgrim
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036

Jennifer Rahim
Lecturer
B.A., Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 2033
Major Research Interests: Caribbean Literature; Cultural and Literary Theory

Irma Rambaran
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Audiovisual Production, Caribbean Script-writing

D. F. Gordon Rohlehr
Professor of West Indian Literature
B.A. (UCWI-London), Ph.D. (Birmingham)
Ext. 3035
Major Research Interests: Calypso; Poetry and Music; Popular Culture; Carnival Studies, and Kamau Brathwaite

Roydon Salick
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (Sir. G. Wms.), M.A. (McGill), Ph.D. (Manitoba), Dip. Ed. (McGill)
Ext. 3021
Major Research Interests: Selvon, the Indo-Caribbean Novel; the Caribbean Novel of Growing Up

Patricia Saunders
Part-time Lecturer
B. S. (Maryland), M. A., Ph.D. (Pittsburgh)
c/o Exts. 2032, 3567

Vishnudat Singh
Senior Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
Ext. 2030

Rose-Ann Walker
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Comparative Language and Literature

Portuguese

George Humberto Ramos
Foreign Language Instructor, Portuguese Language
B.A. (Universidade de Santa Catarina)
c/o Ext. 2031
Major Research Interests: Brazilian Popular Culture, Brazilian History, Use of Multimedia Tools in Language Teaching

Vanessa Williams
Part-time Lecturer, Portuguese Language
B. A. (Hons.) (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2031

Spanish

Nina Bruni
Assistant Lecturer, Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature
B.A. (Universidad Católica Argentina), M.A. (Universidad Nacional de General San Martín)
Ext. 3031
Major Research Interests: Spanish Language; Sociology and Latin American Literature

Lancelot Cowie
Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language (Co-ordinator, Spanish Language)
B.A., Ph.D. (UWI)
Ext. 3031
Major Research Interests: Spanish Language Textbook Development; Latin American Culture and Society

Cristina González Navarro

Lectora, lengua española (Gobierno de España.)

(Visiting Lecturer)
Licenciatura in Philology (Universidad de Madrid)
Ext. 3661
Major Research Interest:

Ramón Mansoor
Lecturer, Hispanic Literature (Co-ordinator, Hispanic Literature)
B.A., M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Laval)
Ext. 3030
Major Research Interests: Spanish American Social and Political Essay; 20th Century Venezuelan Literature

Anne-Marie Pouchet (On leave 2003-2005)
Assistant Lecturer, Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature
B.A., M.Phil. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2031
Major Research Interests: 20th Century Venezuelan Narrative; Narrative of the Dictator

Nicole Roberts
Lecturer, Hispanic Literature
B.A. (Hons.) (Queen's Univ.), M.A. (Florida State), Ph.D. (Birmingham)
Ext. 3027
Major Research Interests: Latin American Literature; Hispanic Caribbean Literature; Life Writing; Identity; Feminist Theory and Feminism

Foreign Language Instructors

Esperanza Luengo Cervera
Foreign Language Instructor, Spanish Language
Licenciatura in Philology (Universidad de Valencia)
Ext. 2031; 662-1038 (CLL)
Major Research Interest: Second Language Acquisition Methodology

Part time Staff / Tutors

Ali José Chirino

Part-time Lecturer, Spanish Language
B.A. in Filología inglesa,

Universidad Pedagócica Experimental Libertador
c/o CLL / 662-1038
Major Research Interests: Spanish Language Teaching

Rómulo Guédez Fernández
Part-time Lecturer, Spanish Language
B. Sc. Electrical Engineering

Universidad de Carabobo
c/o Ext. 2031
Major Research Interests:

Charleston Thomas
Tutor, Hispanic Literature
B.A., M.A., (UWI)
Ext. 2031

Foundation Courses

Nancy Adams
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Interpretation, ESL, Language Learning Theory

Brent Bain
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Philosophy of Religion

Errol Benjamin
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Anglophone Identity as a Crosscultural Dynamic

Cynthia Carrington
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A., Dip. Ed., TESOL (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036 or 2035

Donna Carter
Part-time Lecturer
B. A. Dip. International Relations, Dip. Ed. (U.W.I.), L.L.B (Hons.) (London)
c/o Ext. 2036

Deborah Jean-Baptiste Samuel
Part-time Lecturer
B. A., Dip. International Relations (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Orality in Caribbean poetry, Lit-oratures, African oral poets, Gesture, Tonal reality of Caribbean language, Performance monologue, Poetry as social comment and exploring the "spoken text" as in the written work

Merle Hodge
Lecturer, English Language and Creative Writing (Co-ordinator, Foundation Writing Courses)
B.A., M.Phil. (London)
Ext. 3032
Major Research Interests: Caribbean Literature in English and French; Caribbean Creoles, and language teaching in the context of these Creoles; Language in Caribbean Literature; Women's Studies; ); "Language in the Novels of Earl Lovelace" (doctoral thesis in preparation)

Vijay Maharaj
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035

Genevieve Phagoo
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036
Major Research Interests: Gender Relations in the works of Chaucer and Shakespeare

Sheila Rampersad
Part-time Lecturer
B.A. (UWI), M.A. (Warwick), Ph.D. (Nottingham Trent)
c/o Ext. 2036

Karen Sanderson Cole
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2035

Ann Second
Part-time Lecturer
B. A. (Hons.) (UWI)
c/o Ext. 2036

Geraldine Skeete
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A., Teacher's Dip. (UWI)
Ext. 2343
Major Research Interests: Change and Development in Literary Discourse of the Anglophone Caribbean: Implicature versus Explicature in the Treatment of Sexuality of Selected Texts

Eve Subnaik
Part-time Lecturer, English Language
B.A. (UWI), Dip. Ed. (UWI), M.Ed. (UWI), MPH (Tulane)
c/o Ext. 2036