Event

The Department of Liberal Arts hosts its annual Professor J Michael Dash Lecture, on 23^rd February, 2012, from 1-3 pm, at the Faculty of Humanities and Education, SB1.

Professor Dash will deliver his lecture on the topic, “Post-Prospero: Neocolonialism In The Works Of Aimé Césaire and Dany Laferrière.”

 

About Professor J Michael Dash

Born in Trinidad, Professor Dash has worked extensively on Haitian literature and French Caribbean writers, especially Edouard Glissant, whose works, The Ripening (1985), Caribbean Discourse (1989) and Monsieur Toussaint (2005) he has translated into English.  

After twenty-one years at The University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus in Jamaica, where he was Professor of Francophone Literature and Chair of Modern Languages, he is now Professor of French at New York University after having been Director of the Africana Studies Program. His publications include Literature and Ideology in Haiti (1981), Haiti and the United States (1988), Edouard Glissant (1995), The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context (1998).  He has also translated The Drifting of Spirits (1999) by Gisèle Pineau. His most recent books are, Libeté: A Haiti Anthology (1999) with Charles Arthur and Culture and Customs of Haiti (2001). He is at present completing a book on the Francophone Caribbean in the 1940s. 

To find out more, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw at 662-2002 ext 82032, or via e-mail at Elizabeth.Walcott-Hackshaw@sta.uwi.edu.