Welcome to the Centre for Caribbean Studies
The Centre for Caribbean Studies, located within the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, aims to promote interdisciplinary and collaborative work within Caribbean Studies and to develop the study of Caribbean literature.
Caribbean Studies related courses at Goldsmiths include Caribbean Women's Literature, an option within the BA programme. At postgraduate level, we offer the Caribbean Pathway in Literature of the Caribbean & its Diasporas within the MA Comparative Literary Studies programme.
The Centre welcomes scholars and students, both from within and without the Department, who have an interest in Caribbean Studies. We are especially interested in interdisciplinary themes such as carnival. Research in this area, informing pedagogic and literary practice, is of continuing importance to the work of the Centre. Our current collaborative and interdisciplinary focus includes both the Caribbean region and the diaspora, particularly in the UK, and our collaborative research projects and teaching reflect a concern with the Caribbean in the globalised world.
News
The Centre-led international research project
Behind the Looking-Glass: 'Other Cultures' Within Translating Cultures has been awarded AHRC Research Network funding, 2011-2013.
The Centre for Caribbean Studies is the organising impetus for London's biennial Caribbean Women's Literature conference. Guest writers in attendance include: Opal Palmer Adisa, Alba Ambert, Aida Bahr, Merle Collins, Ramabai Espinet, Beryl Gilroy, Lorna Goodison, Maggie Harris, Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, Pauline Melville, Nancy Morejón, Grace Nichols, M. Nourbese Philip, Velma Pollard, Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson and Mirta Yañez.
The Centre has a thriving international research network, the Caribbean and African Researchers' Network (CARN), which is central to the collaborative project: Black Body in Europe