Dr. Karen Sanderson Cole
Lecturer, Literatures in English
Room 315 F, 3rd Floor East
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 868-662-2002 x 84458
Literature for me is a safe space from which I can feed my curiosity about people’s lives- the decisions they have made, the reasons why, the consequences. I am especially interested in narratives of power – political leadership (especially in the Caribbean) and narratives of those who have traditionally had no power – Black women and Caribbean peoples, as well as children. I also like evaluating the ways that information is packaged and expressed so the scholarship of teaching at the secondary and tertiary levels is also an area of interest.
Qualification
- PhD Literatures in English: (High Commendation). The University of the West Indies,
- MHED The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The University of the West Indies, St.Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- Post-graduate Diploma in Education (Distinctions in Teaching Practice, Foundation and Research). The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- M.Phil. Literatures in English. The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- BA History, Language and Literature (Upper Second-Class Division). The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Research Interests
- Caribbean Literature
- Caribbean Auto/biography
- Caribbean Political Leadership Narratives
- Caribbean Children’s Literature
- Narratology
Featured Work
- “Taking Responsibility: Conceptual Metaphor and the Accession Stage of Leadership in Eric Williams’ Inward Hunger: The Making of a Prime Minister in Caribbean Discourses: Stylistics and Critical Discourse Approaches to Language Use in the Caribbean
- “Changing Caribbean Worlds- One Romance at a Time”. Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies. Issue 1: Social Transformation. Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
- . “Inclusive Teaching and Learning at the Tertiary Level: Approaches to Enhanced Accessibility for Learners with Special Educational Needs”. Caribbean Curriculum Volume 25, 2017. With Elna Carrington-Blaides and Nadia Laptiste-Francis.
- Academic Writing Within an Online Learning Environment: Assessing the Impact of Peer Evaluation on Lesson Planning, Execution and Assessment.” Journal of International Education Research. Second Quarter 2013, vol.9. No.2 115-123. Collaborative paper wi
- Karen Sanderson Cole & Barbara Lalla. “Creole vs Standard English: Negotiating Voice in Caribbean Children’s Literature.” in Caribbean Children’s Literature, Volume 1: History, Pedagogy, and Publishing (Children’s Literature Association Series). Eds. B
- “Research Supervision at the University of the West Indies: The Case of Two Veterans”. Graduate Research Supervision in the Developing World: Policies, Pedagogies and Practices (Routledge Research in Higher Education). Eds. Erik Blair, Danielle Watson, S
- . “Divestiture in the Caribbean Political Autobiography: In the Midst of It-ANR Robinson”. Celebrating Multiple Identities: Opting Out of Neocolonial Monolingualism, Monoculturalism, and Mono-Identification in the Greater Caribbean.Eds: Nicholas Farac
- “The Politics of Perspective: Counter-Discourse and Popular Romance in the Caribbean”. Caribbean Heritage: A Sourcebook. Ed. Basil Reid. UWI Press:86-102. ISBN-13: 978-9766402648
- “Using For the Life of Laetitia to Teach Character Development to Form 3 Special Students”. The Child and the Caribbean Imagination. Eds. Giselle Rampaul and Geraldine Skeete. UWI Press :207-214ISBN 9766402671, 9789766402679
Courses Taught
- LITS 6921- Interrogating Literature, Film and Society
- LITS 2110-African Literature in English Prose 1
- LANG 6000- Advanced Academic English Language Skills
- LING 2702 - Point of View and Meaning in Literary Discourse
- LING 2404- Structure and Meaning in Literary Discourse
- MDSC 2408-Communication Skills for Health Professions
- EDLA 2113-Literature for Children
- LING 1001-Introduction to Language
- LING 1002 -Introduction to Morphology &Syntax
- FOUN 1001 English for Academic Purposes
