My work is concentrated on fiction, film, postcolonial studies, African and Caribbean literature, modern British literature. Myteaching, scholarly, and literary interests lie in late 19th through 20th century British poetry and fiction; African and West Indian literature; Shakespeare; drama; film; colonial, postcolonial, and gender issues in literature; the Atlantic Slave Trade and African diaspora in literature; the presence (explicit and implicit) of colonialism, racial stereotypes, and images of Africa and the Caribbean in nineteenth century English literature; and creative writing.

My bookThe True History of Paradise(1999) was short-listed for the Dublin International I.M.P.A.C. award, and my bookThe Pirate’s Daughter(2007), was a London Times Best Seller and wonthe Essence Literary Award for Fiction in 2008.

Other publications include short fiction and articles inCallaloo,The Washington Post,Journal of Commonwealth Literature, andEllemagazine. My screenplay,Photo Finish, Jamaican-American athlete, was sold to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.

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