Ms. Deborah Lee Matthews
Temporary Full-Time Assistant Lecturer, Cultural Studies
Room 325, 3rd Floor West
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 868-662-2002 ext. 83567
My current research uses an arts-based methodology to explore the lived experiences of Black women and girls; a decolonial approach that allows for the measured consideration of the possibilities of using ritual theatre and embodied knowledge(s) in digital space.
Qualification
- PhD Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (in progress)
- MPhil Cultural Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
- BA Literatures in English & Theatre Arts (Double Major), The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Research Interests
- Orality & Languaging
- Calypso
- Heterotopias
- Theatre
Featured Work
- Matthews, Deborah. “Play You Is [Me]!: Third Space Rituals, Memory & The Performance of Self as Pedagogy”. Critical Arts, Vol. 1, No. 5, May 2024, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2024.2332382
- “Teef From Teef.” Adda, 10 Jul. 2023, https://www.addastories.org/teef-from-teef/
- Webber, Yvonne & Deborah Matthews. “Abyssinia Coming Down: Dread Rituals in Jumbie Timespaces”. Tout Moun, Vol. 7, No. 1, November 2022, n.p.
Courses Taught
- CLTR 2150: Introduction to Cultural Studies
- CLTR 3100: Theorising Caribbean Culture
- CLTR 3101: Race Nationalism & Culture
- LITS 6201: Women’s Writing & Feminist Theory
- LITS 2301: Key Issues in Literary Criticism
- LITS 2510: West Indian Prose Fiction
- LITS 2507: Introduction to West Indian Poetry (B): Selected W.I. Poets
- LITS 2506: Introduction to West Indian Poetry (A): Selected W.I. Poets
- LITS 1202: The Elements of Drama
- THEA 1004: Introduction to Cultural Research Methods (Tutor)
