Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies Members
Meet the people involved with the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies.
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Director
Professor Emeritus Joan Anim-Addo
Joan’s research activities have been into Caribbean Literature and diaspora, women’s writing and Black presence in Europe.
Deputy Director
Dr Marl'ene Edwin
Marl'ene Edwin has a PhD in English titled Orality in the Body of the Archive: Memorialising Representations of Creole Language and Culture in the technologised Word. As Deputy Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies, she is currently engaged in research in creolistics and oral literature. Her first book Archiving Creole Voices: Representations of Language and Culture was published in January 2025.
She is also the Programme Convenor for the UK's only MA in Black British Literature and the module convenor for Caribbean Women Writers taught to third year undergraduates.
Advisory Board
- Professor Les Back (Sociology)
- Professor Claudia Bernard (STACS)
- Professor Osita Okagbue (Theatre and Performance)
- Dr Suzanne Scafe (London South Bank University)
- Professor Raimi Gbadamosi (University of the Witwatersrand)
Members
- Dr Natasha Bonnelame (University of the Arts, London/National Theatre)
- Dr Leila Kamali (Kings, University of London)
- Dr Midori Saito (Uto) (Tsuru University, Japan)
- Dr Tendai Marima
- Dr Rachel Thompson
- Dr Maria Gabriela Lopez Yanez (Facultad de Artes, Universidad Central del Ecuador)
- Dr Nche Andzeuh Joan
- Dr Lucia Llano Puertas