Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Prof Elizabeth WALCOTT-HACKSHAW
Professor & Coordinator (Postgraduate) - French Literature (Modern Languages)
Office
Room 305, 3rd Floor West, School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Education
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Phone: (868) 662-2002, Ext. 83024
Fax: (868) 663-5059
E-mail: Elizabeth.Walcott-Hackshaw@sta.uwi.edu
Education
• PhD French Literature and Language, Boston University
• MA (Hons.), French Language and Literature, Boston University
• BA (Hons.) English Literature and French Language and Literature, Boston University
Research Interests
• The Poetics of Francophone/Haitian Women Writers
• The treatment of Caribbean Return Migration
• Short Stories of the Caribbean Region (Anglophone/Francophone/Hispanic)
• The poets and writers of 19th French Literature (Flaubert and Baudelaire)
Current Courses
• FREN 1599 Introduction to Literatures in French
• FREN 2605 The French Novel in the 19th Century
• FREN 2607 Post-Romantic French Poetry
• FREN 2608 French Caribbean Women Writers
• FREN 3501 The French Caribbean Novel
• FREN 3502 French Caribbean Poetry and Drama
• FREN 3505 French Caribbean Prose
Recent Publications
• Roberts, Nicole and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, eds. Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers. Kingston: UWI Press, 2011.
• Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth. The Temporal Aesthetic in the Short Fiction of Yanick Lahens and Edwidge Danticat. The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives. Eds. Lucy Evans, Mark Mc Watt and Emma Smith. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2011.
• Munro, Martin and Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth, eds. Echoes of the Haitian Revolution: 1804–2004. Kingston: UWI Press, 2008.
• Walcott-Hackshaw, Elizabeth. Four Taxis Facing North. Hexham, Northumberland: Flambard Press, 2007. (Translated into Italian and published by Carta Canta Editore.)
• Munro, Martin and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, eds. Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks (1804-2004). Kingston: UWI Press, 2006.
