Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Dr Nicole ROBERTS
Senior Lecturer Spanish (Modern Languages)
Office
Room 312, 3rd Floor East, School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Education
The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Phone: (868) 662-2002, Ext. 83027
E-mail: Nicole.Roberts@sta.uwi.edu
Education
• Postgraduate Certificate Programme in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), University of British Columbia
• PhD in Hispanic Studies, University of Birmingham
• MA in Spanish and French, Florida State University
• BA (Honours) in French and Spanish, Queen's University
Research Interests
• Afro-Hispanic poetry
• Women studies
• Life writing and Race and ethnicity
Here is a recent interview. Listen to my interview with Cuban/American writer Achy Obejas on The Spaces Between Words – Conversations with Writers.
See an interview in DMLL Research Notes Vol 5 (September 2018).
See my Supervision of Postgraduate Theses here (MA Spanish, MPhil Spanish, PhD Spanish, MPhil and PhD Cultural Studies).
Current Courses
Undergraduate
- HUMN 2704 Without Borders: Caribbean Women Writers
- SPAN 2604 Women in Hispanic Literature
- SPAN 3001 Spanish Language 3A (Components: Escritura & Comprensión de lectura)
- SPAN 3002 Spanish Language 3B (Components: Escritura & Comprensión de lectura)
- SPAN 3301 Issues in Contemporary Cuban Culture
- SPAN 3706 Spanish Caribbean Literature
Postgraduate
- HUMN 6699 Methods of Research and Literary Scholarship
- SPAN 6039 From Autobiography to Testimonial: Narratives of Authority, Community and Self
- SPAN 6499 The Hispanic American Short Story
- SPAN 6999 African Caribbean Literature in Spanish
Recent Publications
• Roberts, Nicole, Armando García de la Torre and Mauricio Núñez Rodríguez, eds. Trinidad y Tobago / Cuba: Historia, Lengua y Literatura. Valencia: Aduana Vieja Press, 2018.
• Lalla, Barbara, Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Valerie Youssef, eds. Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture. Kingston: UWI Press, 2013.
• Roberts, Nicole and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, eds. Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers. Kingston: UWI Press, 2011.
• Roberts, Nicole. Vultures, Vixens and Villains: Women Negotiating Identities in Hispanic Caribbean Short Narratives. In Journal of West Indian Literature: Where is Here? Remapping the Caribbean 18.2 (April 2010): 145-159.
• Roberts, Nicole. Main Themes in Twentieth Century Afro-Hispanic Poetry: A Literary Sociology. Wales: Edwin Mellen Press: 2009.
