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.