Dr. Sue Ann Barratt
Lecturer, Communication Studies
Room 312A, 3rd Floor East
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 868-662-2002 x 83032
Sue Ann is a scholar of human communication and gendered expression and interaction. She interrogates gender-based violence, especially as it manifests through social discourse. In addition, she explores the nuance and significance of social identities, as well as the complexity of Caribbean cultural expressions and products, particularly Trinidad and Tobago Carnival. In general, her research extends to human communication conflict, social media use and its implications, media and communication practice, mental health management and its implications for learners, cultural intelligence, and intersectional justice.
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Qualification
- PhD Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, The Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus
- MA Communications Studies, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
- BA Media and Communication with Minor Political Science, Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC), The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Research Interests
- Human communication and human communication conflict
- Social identities and identification
- Carnival and cultural studies
- Social media and mainstream media practice, use and implications
- Mental health for students and learnings
- Gender and social justice
Featured Work
- Attai, Nikoli and Barratt, Sue Ann. Eds. 2026. “‘Free Up YuhSelf’: Transgressive Bodies and Contestations in the Carnivalesque”. Rutgers University Press.
- Barratt, Sue Ann and Aleah Ranjitsingh. 2021. Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix. University of Mississippi Press, Caribbean Studies Series.
- Collins, Tivia and Barratt, Sue Ann. 2025. “Looking Out, Looking In: Transformative Feminist Pedagogies in the Caribbean”. Gender and Education. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. June 6th, 2025. DOI 10.1080/09540253.2025.2515864
- Barratt, Sue Ann. 2021. Find Your Anchor: Navigating Mental Illness and Academic Achievement. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies Issue – Disability, Mental Health, and Disablement. Eds. Savitri Persaud and Fatimah Jackson-Best. Disability, Mental Healt
- Barratt, Sue Ann, 2026. ““You Get an Edge”: Gender Responsive Mentorship and the Potential for Transformative Development of Students”. Ed. Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi. Revisioning Education 2030: Towards Quality Lifelong Learning Opportunities for All. Univers
- Barratt, Sue Ann and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh. 2026. “Dougla Maneuverings: Mixedness and Complex Embodiments in the Caribbean Diaspora”. Ed. Aleah N. Ranjitsingh. The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and
- Barratt, Sue Ann, 2024. “Norms in Contention: Human Rights Across Social, Gendered and Religious Conformity and Non-Conformity”. Ed. Wendell C. Wallace. The Palgrave Handbook of Caribbean Criminology. 1st Edition, July 2024, Palgrave Macmillan
- Barratt, Sue Ann. 2021. “Contending with Binaries: Rethinking Mixedness Through the Caribbean Dougla Body”. Eds. Encarnacion Guitierrez-Rodriguez, Rhoda Reddock. Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and The Caribbean. Anthem Press
- Barratt, Sue Ann. 2021. “Are We There Yet? Contemporary Struggles for Gender Justice and the Legacy of Caribbean Feminisms”. Eds. Josephine Beoku-Betts and Akosua Adomako Ampofo. Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in
Courses Taught
- • Communication Research and Analysis
- • Communication Theory
- • Ethics
- • Gender and Development Studies
- • Gender Theory
- • Human Sexuality
- • Social Media, Media, Language and Culture
- • Philosophy of Gender
- • Social Identities
- • Work and Labour
