RAYMOND
RAMCHARITAR
Résumé
Academic Qualifications
Poetry Fellow: Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College, Vermont
(2011)
Visiting Scholar: New College, University
of Toronto, Canada (2010)
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Warwick University, UK (2008)
Ph.D., History: The University of the West Indies (St Augustine, Trinidad
& Tobago). Thesis Title: “The Hidden History of Trinidad: Underground
Culture in Trinidad, 1870-1970” (2008)
M.A., Literatures in English: The University of the West Indies (St Augustine, Trinidad
& Tobago). Thesis Title:
“Contextualizing Caribbean Critical Theory” (2002)
B. Sc., Economics: The University of the West Indies (St Augustine, Trinidad
& Tobago) (1991)
Academic Interests
Cultural History
Cultural Theory
Poetry, Fiction
& Drama (Creative Writing)
Post-Colonial Literary
Criticism and Analysis
The
Enlightenment and Freemasonry in 19th Century Trinidad
A
History of Creole Trinidad 1956 - 1986
Academic Employment
Adjunct
Lecturer
2003 - 2017
University of the West Indies, Centre for
Creative & Festival Arts (CCFA), Faculty of Humanities, and Department of
Psychology. Delivered occasional courses and lectures in contemporary theatre,
and media and cultural studies.
·
Designed and taught in 2009
“Literature & Psychology: Creative Writers as Proto-Psychologists”;
·
Designed and taught from
2003-2007 “Seminars in Contemporary Theatre”
·
Occasional lecturers to
graduate cultural studies seminars
Lecturer 2002-2009
College of Science Technology and Applied
Arts of Trinidad & Tobago, Department of Literature and Communications.
Delivered courses and lectures in media, journalism and Literature
Publications: Academic Writing
Books
Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad, Trinidad: Lexicon, 2005
A Will and A Way: The Autobiography
of Anthony N Sabga (2015) (Editor, amanuensis, researcher, co-author with
Bridget Brereton)
Books in Progress
A
History of Creole Trinidad – 1956-1986 (2017)
Book Chapters
“The Caribbean in the Metropolitan
Imagination,” in Adventuring in the
Englishes: Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Globalised World (eds.
Piers Smith & Ikram Ahmed Elsherif), London, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013
“Underground History: The
Hostile, Recalcitrant Past”, in Breaking
Ground (ed. Daive Dunkley), New
York: Lexington Publishers, 2011
“The Short Story and the Colonial
Imagination in the Work of the Beacon Group in Trinidad” in The Caribbean Short Story, Critical Perspectives (eds. Mark McWatt et al), Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2011
“The Moment Before the Dawn”— A new introduction to the classic
Caribbean novel, A Morning at the Office,
by Edgar Mittelholzer, Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2010
New Perspectives in Caribbean Tourism, chapter on “Tourist Nationalism in Trinidad”,
(eds. Marcella Daye et al) New York:
Routledge, 2008
The Gowanus Anthology, chapters on “Snapshots of Elsewhere” and “The Magic Eye”
(ed. Thomas Hubschman), New York: Gowanus Books, 2001
Journals
“The Hegemony of the Monad: Eric Williams
and the Creole Imagination in Trinidad: 1956-1981” Caribbean Quarterly, March 2012
“Gordon
Rohlehr and the Culture Industry in Trinidad”, in New West Indian Guide, Vol 85 (Nos 3&4) 2011
“The Return of the Critic: The
West Indian Novel in 2004”, in The Arts
Journal, Vol. 1, No 2, Georgetown:
The Arts Forum, 2005
“A Destructive Freedom” (essay) in The Trinidad & Tobago Review, St Augustine:
Trinidad & Tobago Institute of the West Indies, June 2005
“The New
Nationalism” (essay), in The Trinidad
& Tobago Review (ibid) November 2004
“Meeting Derek Walcott” (essay) Mangrove, No 13, Miami: University of
Miami, 2004
“The
Architectonics of Nationalism” (essay) in The
Trinidad & Tobago Review, St Augustine: Trinidad & Tobago Institute
of the West Indies, June 2004
“Interview with Derek Walcott” in The Trinidad & Tobago Review (ibid)
April 2003
“V.S. Naipaul: A Life in Full”, in Caribbean Quarterly: Special Issue on V.S. Naipaul, (ed. Bhoe Tewarie) June-December 2002, Kingston: UWI, Mona
Publications: Creative Writing
Books
Here (Poetry) Leeds: Peepal Tree Press,
2013
The Island Quintet: A Sequence (Fiction) Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2009
(short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book, Caribbean &
Canada, 2010)
American Fall (Poetry) Leeds:
Peepal Tree Press, 2007
Theatre
Paradiso,
performed in June 2003, at the Warehouse Theatre in Croydon, UK
Academic Conferences
Conferences
“The Caribbean in the Metropolitan
Imagination”, GUST English Language and Literature Conference, Gulf University
of Science & Technology, Kuwait, April 2012
“The Emotional Economy of the Caribbean—A Preliminary
Assessment”: University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI), 2010
“The Media and the Creation of a False Public History
in Trinidad”: Society for Caribbean Studies, Nottingham, UK, 2005
“Cyborg
Carnivals: Some Notes on Laughter in the Post-Human Caribbean”: Society for
Caribbean Studies Conference, Liverpool, UK, 2003
“Art and the New Colonialism:
A Study of Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA7) in Trinidad and the Implications
of its Practice for Caribbean Art”: Presented at the Caribbean Studies Conference,
University of Antwerp, Holland, 2003.
“Art, Politics
and Ethnicity in Trinidad”: Presented at Northeastern Illinois University’s
“Where Choice is Born” Conference, Chicago, US, 2002
“Far from the
Brahmin Crowd: Notes on the Construction of the Trinidad Indian with Reference
to the Novels of Harold Sonny Ladoo”: Presented at the University of the West
Indies Conference on Indo-Caribbean Literature, St Augustine, Trinidad, 2000.
Public Lectures (Trinidad)
“The ‘cult’ in Multi-Culturalism: Trinidad’s Experiment with
Multiculturalism with Reference to the Work of Neil Bissoondath”, National
Library, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, 2013
“Indians, Democracy and the Law”, Indian Arrival Day
Conference, Trinidad, 2008
“Indian
Ontology in Literature and History”, Indian Arrival Day Conference, Trinidad
& Tobago, 2006
“The Polished
Hoe”, Feature Address at the Trinidad Launch of The Polished Hoe, by Austin Clarke, delivered at the National
Museum in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, September 2003
“How to Read Caribbean Culture” Lecture given to the
Convocation of Caribbean and Latin American British Council Representatives,
British High Commission, Port of Spain, September 2003
Awards
Shortlist, Commonwealth Prize 2010, for Best First Book, Canada & the Caribbean
Post-graduate Scholarship, UWI, St Augustine, 2007 (History)
Radio Drama Writing Fellowship, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, 2003
Winner, The
Warehouse Theatre’s (UK) International Playwriting Festival, 2002
Private Fellowship, (Sept 2000-Dec 2000), in poetry and drama to Boston
University (Massachusetts, USA) awarded and funded by Derek Walcott
Vera Rubin Fellowship in Creative Writing, to Yaddo, the artists’ colony in Saratoga
Springs, NY (1994-1995).
Other Employment
Communications & Media
Advisor: Social and Cultural Affairs 2010 - Present
To the Chairman Emeritus of the ANSA McAL Group of Companies in
Trinidad. Advised the Chairman on issues of quality, content, and branding,
relating to the media companies in the group—radio, television, and press.
Corporate
Communications Consultant 2010 - Present
The Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for
Excellence. Designed branding strategy, organized publicity events (public
lectures and academic panels) and managed media relations for the Awards
throughout the English
Writer/Editor 1991
- Present
Various publications. Columnist and journalist for Trinidad
Guardian, freelance journalist for
the Trinidad Express.
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