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Best Research Publication (Article)
Recognising Outstanding Researchers 2016
Dr Paulette Ramsay
Dr Paulette Ramsay is a senior lecturer, in the Faculty of Humanities and Education. She is an interdisciplinary academic, an established writer and researcher whose interests include language pedagogy, writing theories and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture. She has published many scholarly articles, mainly in the area of Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, in international journals such as The Afro-Hispanic Review, PALARA, Bulletin of Latin American Review, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, The Langston Hughes Review, and College Language Association.
Her research has expanded the knowledge in her interconnected disciplines by drawing on broad post-colonial and post-modernist theories, gender studies, feminist studies, masculinity theories and cultural studies, as they relate to questions of ethnicity, gender, identity and statehood.
She has also published a rhetorical reader for Caribbean tertiary students, Blooming with the Pouis (2009), as well as translations of a novel, poetry and short stories from Spanish into English. Her novel, Aunt Jen, has been translated into German and Italian, and is enjoying great popularity. She has also published two anthologies of poems entitled, Under Basil Leaves (2010) and October Afternoon (2012), respectively. She has been the recipient of several awards, including OAS, AECI Fellowships, and The University of the West Indies UWI 60th Anniversary Award for outstanding research. In 2014, she received the French National Award: Chevalier, Knight in the French Order of Merit (Ordre National du Mérite) from the French Government, for her work as Head of Department and her collaboration with the Embassy of France. She was the first coordinator of The UWI Writing Centre, and is currently Head of the Department of Modern Languages
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