Aisha Spencer
Dr. Aisha Spencer is a lecturer in Language and Literature Education in the School of Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in Kingston, Jamaica. Her scholarly writing has largely surrounded the situation of gender and the nation in Caribbean Literature and has recently began to focus on postcolonial and gender discourses in Caribbean Children’s Literature by Caribbean women writers. Dr. Spencer has been teaching language and literature for over twenty (20) years. She lectures and leads workshop sessions for teachers and students in the area of Children’s Literature, is a Caribbean Children’s Literature advisor for Lantana Publishing and has worked closely with particular Caribbean female Children’s Literature authors over the years. She works closely with teachers and students across Jamaica, engaging them in new ways of reading and responding to Literature. She is the co-editor of a recently published anthology of Caribbean poetry, entitled ‘Give the Ball to the Poet : A New Anthology of Caribbean Poetry. Her areas of research interest are predominantly in Literature Education, Gender and Nationalism, Postcolonial Literatures, and Children’s Literature.
