CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Barbara Ann LALLA (nee Ellwood) TITLE/POST: Professor Emeritus, Language and Literature ADDRESS: Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies Telephone: (868) 663-1334 (3867) e-mail: barbara.lalla@sta.uwi.edu 80 Faralon Drive, Bel Air, La Romain Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Telephone: (868) 697-0968 e-mail: barbara.lalla@sta.uwi.edu DATE OF BIRTH: November 1, 1949. PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Andrew, Jamaica ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: 1976. Ph.D. The University of the West Indies. Thesis Title: The Conceptualization of Death in Old and Middle English Poetry (Area: Medieval Literature and Language History) 1972. B.A. English Special Honours. First Class Honours. The University of the West Indies.

AWARDS:

2017 Finalist, Foreword Indie Award, Grounds for Tenure, A Novel 2016 Longlisted for Dublin Literary Award 2016, Uncle Brother, A Novel 2014 BIAJ National Book Awards, for UWI Press, for Cascade, A Novel 2014 Jamcopy Award, Best Adult Creative Writing, Prose, for Cascade, A Novel 2010 The University of the West Indies Press Inaugural Fiction Award 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Finalist, for Cascade: A Novel 2008 The University of the West Indies Press Outstanding Publishing Proposal, (2005)

Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon.

1999 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence 1998 Dean’s Award for Postgraduate Research (Project on Development of a Literary

Discourse in the Anglophone Caribbean - Ph.D candidate, Geraldine Skeete) 1972 Alcan Jamaica Scholar EXPERIENCE:

EMPLOYMENT: Current. Emeritus Professor, Language and Literature 1999-2010: Professor, Language and Literature

1976 - 2010: Department of Language and Linguistics/Department of Liberal Arts/ Department of Literary, Cultural and Commuication Studies.

The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, WI. 1975 - 1976: St Joseph's Convent High School, San Fernando, Trinidad

1974 - 1975: Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Oral Roberts' University, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1973 - 1974: Teaching Assistant, Department of English, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

TEACHING, SUPERVISION AND EXAMINATION: . UndergraduateTeachingand Programme Design

Courses taught in the following areas:Literary Linguistics; British Literature (Medieval, including Anglo-Saxon; Shakespeare; English Poetry, Donne to Byron) History of the English Language; Caribbean Dialectology; Historical Linguistics; Structure of The English Language; Introduction to Literature (20th Century); Composition and Rhetoric (Exposition, Argument, Essay, Report); General Linguistics; Final Year Undergraduate theses for Caribbean Studies, in Linguistics, Literature and Gender Studies. Over the years, monitoring and guidance of tutors in large courses in Linguistics and Literature, coordination of assessment and examinations, especially for prompt feedback to students. Collaborative programme design(Language and Literature with Education) in response to national needs for better preparation of Language teachers. Design of new course in British Literature (LITS 2704) to bring out relevance to Caribbean students. Use of video material in teaching general Linguistics, film in teaching Shakespeare, etc. Through preparation of first Distance Education coursebook (English for Academic Purposes), pioneered outreach through self access material. This material is also used by some schools.

Graduate Teaching and Programme Design 2011 Words on a Page: Literary Discourse (with special reference to the Anglophone Caribbean) designed. To be offered 2010/2011 Sem 2). 2010 Methods of Research in Literary Discourse, designed and taught 2009 Module in the MFA programme, in the Writer and Society 2006-07Methods of Research and Literary Scholarship, collaborative revision and teaching 2006-2009 For Literatures in English and MPhil Cultural Studies programmes, lectures on

Caribbean literary discourse

Graduate Supervision

PhD 2018. Genevieve Phagoo. “Foundation Myths and the Woman in Narratives of

Resistance.” With High Commendation PhD 2017. Karen Sanderson-Cole. “Discursive Strategies in the Autobiography

of the Prime Minister 1962-2012.” With High Commendation

PhD 2017. Karen Mah-Chamberlain. It divide up in little worlds: Dialogue and Discourse Analysis of selected novels by Samuel Selvon PhD 2015. Rhonda Harrison. Gender and Romance in 19th Century Fiction set in the Caribbean (Joint with Giselle Rampaul) PhD 2014. Renee Figuero. Discourse structure of Caribbean short story PhD 2014.Myriam Moise Women Writers in the Anglo-Caribbean Diaspora

(joint withParis 3 Sorbonne) With High Commendation Ph.D. 2007. Merle Hodge. A Study of Language Trinidad and Tobago

Prose Fiction of the Twentieth Century with special reference to in the works of Earl Lovelace. With High Commendation.

Ph.D. 2007. Geraldine Skeete. Development of a Discourse of Alternative

Sexuality in Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean. With High Commendation. Thesis of the Year

Ph.D. 1999. Jo-Anne Ferreira. The Portuguese Language in Trinidad and Tobago: A Study of Language Shift and Language Death

Ph.D. 1995. Rawwida Soodeen. A Historical Perspective on the Lexicon of Trinidadian English.

MPhil 2015 Arlini Timal. Olive Senior and the Construction of a Fictional World MPhil 2014 Ryan Durgasingh. Corpus Linguistics Analysis of Literary Discourse

In V. S. Naipaul. With High Commendation MPhil 2012. Malti Maharaj. Fundamentalism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul M.Phil 2008. Michelle Harricharan. Culture Collision…Hybridity in the World of

J.R.R Tolkein M.Phil. 2006. Genevieve Phagoo. Engendering the Female Subject: The

Changing Roles of Honour in Select Chaucerian Heroines. With High Commendation. Thesis of the Year

M.Phil 2003. Karen Sanderson-Cole. The Politics of Perspective: Interrogating Popular Romance with Special Reference to Ti Marie.

M.Phil. 1996. Hazel-Ann Gibbs-De Peza. Glossolalia in the Spiritual Baptist Religion. MFA 2019. Ann Second. Sati Eater.

MA 2011 Justin Zepherin (Joint with Giselle Rampaul) MA 2010 Maria Boatswain-Joseph MA 2007. Malawantee Boodhan, Subaltern in Naipaul MA 2007. Christopher McMaster, Education in Caribbean Critical Theory MA 2006. Errol Benjamin. Applications of Caribbean Critical Theory

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS:

2017 Grounds for Tenure – A Novel. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press. 2014 Uncle Brother - a novel. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press. 2014 Caribbean Literary Discourse, Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean. (Co-authored. Barbara Lalla, Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard.) University of Alabama Press.) 2014 Postscripts:Caribbean Perspectives on the British Canon from Shakespeare to Dickens. Ed Giselle Rampaul and Barbara Lalla. Kingston:. UWI Press. 2013. Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture. Edited by Barbara Lalla, Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw and Valerie Youssef. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press.

2010. Cascade – a Novel. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press. 2010. Created in the West Indies. Caribbean Perspectives on V. S. Naipaul. Edd. Jennifer Rahim and Barbara Lalla. Kingston: Ian Randle Press.

2009.Beyond Boundaries: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon. Edd. Jennifer Rahim with Barbara Lalla. Kingston: The University of the West Indies Press.

2008. Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Re-reading of Medieval English Discourse. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press. 2005. Writing about Literature. Paula Morgan with Barbara Lalla. (Main author, Paula Morgan.) The University of the West Indies, School of ContinuingStudies.

1999. Studies in Caribbean Language 2. Papers from the Ninth Bienniel Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics (1992). (Co-ed. Pauline Christie, Barbara Lalla, Velma Pollard, Lawrence Carrington) St Augustine, Trinidad: Society of Caribbean

Linguistics. 1998. Arch of Fire. (Historical novel.) Kingston: Kingston Publishers. (520 pages.) Translated into German 2000. Flammendes Land. Verlagshaus. 1997. English for Academic Purposes: A Distance Course for Caribbean Students. The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Distance Education Centre. Supported by English for Academic Purposes: Student Manual. The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. Distance Education Centre. 1996. Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press. (224 pages.)

1990. Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press. (Co-authored, Barbara Lalla and Jean D'Costa). (253 pages.) Reprinted in paperback 2009. Electornic forthcoming.

1989. Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (Companion volume to Language in Exile.) Tuscaloosa

and London: University of Alabama Press. (Co-edited, Jean D'Costa and Barbara Lalla). (157 pages.) Reprinted in paperback 2009. Electronic forthcoming.

SELECTED ARTICLES: 2019 “ . . . and accents yet unknown: Shakespeare and Other Voices. Tout Moun Issue 4 No 2, "Intersections: Caribbean and British Literary Imaginaries", in honour of Dr Giselle Rampaul. https://journals.sta.uwi.edu/toutmoun/ (2016 - 2019. A number of short book reviews – for Caribbean Quarterly, Early American Literature, Latin American, Caribbean Ethnic Studies, Tout Moun.) 2014. Review Article of Olive Senior by Denise DeCaires Narain, in NWIG 881-2, 193-196. 2013. “Possible Caribbeans: Assembling the Fictional Voice” in Reassembling the Fragments: Voice and Identity in Caribbean Discourse, eds. Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef, UWI Press. 2013. “Prologue: Derek Walcott.” Barbara Lalla and Paula Morgan. In Interlocking Basins of a Globe. Ed by Jean Antoine-Dunne. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press. 2012 “Child’s ‘I’ and Other in Olive Senior’s narratives of Self-Invention” in The Child and the Caribbean Imagination, eds. Giselle Rampaul and Geraldine Skeete, UWI Press. 2010 Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef. “Writing Rage: Unmasking Vilence in Caribbean Discourse.”Review article in Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 4, February 2010. 2007 “Signifying Nothing: Writing about not writing in the Mystic Masseur.” Anthurium 5: 2. http://anthurium.miami.edu

2006 “Healing into Poetry: Metaphor in Goodison.” In F A Aiyejina and P Morgan edd. Caribbean

Literature in a Global Context. Port-of-Spain: Lexicon.

2006. “Creole Representation in Literary Discourse: Issues of Linguistic and Discourse Analysis.” In Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Ian Robertson edd. Exploring the

Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 173-87. 2005. “Creole and Respec’ in the Development of Jamaican Literary Discourse,”

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. May. 2005. “Virtual Realism and the Inscriber’s Dilemma: Representing the Caribbean Voice.”

Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Occasional Paper.

2006 Review article of Michael Aceto and Jeffrey P Williams, 2003, Contact Englishes of the Eastern Caribbean. Forthcoming in Varieties of English Around the World.

2000. “Conceptual Perspectives on Time and Timelessness in Martin Carter’s “University of Hunger.” In All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter, ed. Stewart Brown. Leeds, Peepal Tree Press, 106-114. 1999. "A Socio-Linguistic Approach to Critical Analysis in the Caribbean." In Studies in Caribbean Language 2. See Christie, Lalla, Pollard, and Carrington, above, 112-127. 1998. “Registering Woman: Senior’s Zig-zag Discourse, and Code-Switching in Jamaican Narrative.” A Review of International English Literature 29:4, 83-98. Republished 2005, Short Story Collection 78. 1996. “Dungeons of the Soul: Frustrated Romanticism in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature of Jamaica.” Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 21:3, 3-23. 1996. Review Article of Language and the Social Construction of Identity in Creole Situations, ed. Marcyliena Morgan (Los Angeles: Centre for Afro-American Studies Publications, 1994), Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 11:1, 158-163.

1995. “Fe Tek Bad Ting Mek Juok.” Review article of Carolyn Cooper, Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the Vulgar Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (London: Macmillan, 1993). The Journal of Caribbean History 28:1, 132-37.

1993. "Discourse of Dispossession: Ex-centric Journeys of the Un-Living in Wide

Sargasso Sea and the Old English "The Wife's Lament." ARIEL: A Review of International Literature 24: 3, 55-72.

1992. "Word Mesh: Dimensions of Change in the formation of a Creole Lexicon." In Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honour of F.G. Cassidy. Ed.

Joan H. Hall, Nick Doane, and Dick Ringler, New York: Garland Publishing Co. Inc., 127- 142.

1992. "Defining Functional Literacy at Tertiary Level." In Proceedings of the

Symposium, ed. Olabisi Kuboni. Faculty of Education, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, 14-21.

1990. "Black Laughter: Foundations of Irony in the Earliest Jamaican Literature." Journal of Black Studies 20: 4, 414-425. 1986. "Tracing Elusive Phonological Elements in Early Jamaican Creole". In Focus on

the Caribbean, ed. Manfred Gorlach and John Holm. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 117-132. 1983. "The Consonant System of Early Jamaican Creole." CARIB 3, 37-51.

1981. Quaco Sam: A Relic of Archaic Jamaican Speech." Jamaica Journal 45, 20-29. 1979. "Sources for a History of Jamaican Creole." CARIB 1, 50-66. PAPERS PRESENTED

2011. “Metastance and the Caribbean Post-scripting of Europe,” Conference on New Geographies of Postcolonialization and Globalization. UWI SA, March 2011 2010. “The Facetiness Factor: Theorising Caribbean Space in Narrative.” Keynote Address. 29th Conference on West Indian Literature, UWI Mona Jamaica , April-May 2010. 2008. ““Signifying Nothing: Writing about not writing in the Mystic Masseur.” A Paper Presented at a Conference in the Programme of in Honour of V. S. Naipaul on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

2007.“Opening Salt: The Oral/Scribal Continuum and Caribbean Literary Discourse.” A Paper Presented at a Conference in Honour of Gordon Rohlehr on his Retirement, at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

2004. “Black Wholes: Creole Dimensions of Development in Caribbean Literary Discourse.”Plenary presentation, Third Cultural Studies Conference, The University of TheWest Indies, St. Augustine, January, 2004.

2003. “Creole Dimensions of Development in Caribbean Literary Discourse.” Plenary Address. Conference of the Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, August 14 to 17.

(See Invited Addresses below)

2003. “Caribbean Creole and Respec’ in Literary Discourse.” Paper presented at a panel on Literary Discourse at the Conference of the Society of Pidgin and Creole

Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, August 14 to 17. 2002. “Virtual Realism and the Inscriber’s Dilemma: Representing the Caribbean Voice.”

Paper for the Biennial Conference for the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.

2001. “Healing into Poetry: Metaphor in Goodison.” Presented at the 20th Conference on West Indian Literature, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. 2000. “Nation Language and Caribbean Discourse.” Presented at a Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

1998. “Issues of Creole Representation in Caribbean Literary Discourse.” Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics. St Lucia, August 19-22. 1998. “Dismembering Eden: Encoding Eve’s Outrage in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place.” Sixth International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars, May 18 to 22. Grenada. 1998. “The Validity of Cross-Disciplinary Analysis: The Language of Collapsing Certainty in the Novels of Merle Hodge.” Seventeenth Conference of West Indian Literature. The University of the West Indies, Mona. April 5-9. MS 12 pages.

1998. “Gender, Identity and Nationhood in Diaspora Literature: The Novels of Merle Hodge.” Centre for Gender and Development Studies Round Table for 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series. The University of the West Indies (at Hugh Wooding Law School). April 2. MS 9 pages. 1997. “Conceptual Perspectives on Time and Timelessness in Carter’s ‘University of Hunger’.” Sixteenth Annual West Indian Literature Conference. The University of Miami, Florida. April 1-4. MS 10 pages. 1997. “Programming for Regional Education at Tertiary Level and the Distance Education Initiative.” Fourth Biennial Conference on Education, The University of the West Indies, Mona. January 12-15. MS 11 pages.

1996. “Dyin’ Trial: Deconstructing Ancestral Struggle.” Fifteenth Annual Conference on West Indian Literature. The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad. March 6-8. MS 11 pages. 1996. “Registering Woman: Senior’s Zig-zag Discourse, and Code-Switching in Jamaican Narrative.” International Conference of Caribbean Writers and Scholars - The Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Women. Florida International University, April 25-27. MS 12 pages. 1995. “DE English Language Teaching in the Project/Programme/Pilot Triangle.” Presented at a Seminar of the Department of Language and Linguistics, The University of the West Indies St Augustine. MS 8 pages. 1994. "Postdicting Creolisation: A Review of the Case for Middle English." Presented at a Seminar of the Department of Language and Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. MS 10 pages.

1993. "Migrating Words: The Post-Colonial Perspective in Walcott's `Flock.'" Twelfth Conference on West Indian Literature, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, April 12 - 13. MS 18 pages.

1992. "A Linguistic Approach to Critical Analysis in the Caribbean."

Ninth Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics,

The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, August 13-20. MS 15 pages. 1992. "Womb of Darkness: Journey and Identity in Wide Sargasso Sea." Ninth Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, August 13-20. MS 25 pages. 1992. "Lexical Expansion and Development of a Creole Language."

7th Annual Meeting of the Language Origins Society, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, July 18-20. MS 18 pages.

1992. "Inter-cultural Communication in `Country of the One-Eye God.'" Eleventh Annual Conference on West Indian Literature. The University of Guyana, May 31-June 2. MS12 pages. 1991. "Unmasking Deviance: Theme and Language in Jamaican Fiction." 10th Annual Conference on West Indian Literature,, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. June 5-7. MS 25 pages. 1991. "Functional Literacy at the Tertiary Level." Symposium on Literacy, Faculty of Education, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, May 4 and May 11. MS 12 pages. 1986. "Documenting Morphosyntactic Change in Jamaican Creole." Society for Caribbean Linguistics, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad. MS 17 pages. 1984. "Tracing Elusive Phonological Features in Early Jamaican Creole," Society for Caribbean Linguistics." University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. MS 15 pages. RESEARCH PROJECTS and FUNDING (Recent) Coordination of major Research Cluster in the Dynamics of Caribbean Culture, with particular involvement in the sub-project on Voicing the Caribbean in Literary Discourse2006 GOTT Fund Initial design and continuing collaboration (with Giselle Rampaul)on project for series, Postscripts: Caribbean Afterwords on the British Cannon, of which the first volume has appeared. 2006Grant, Research and Publications Fund Committee, for Postcolonialisms Research Methods in Caribbean Literary and Discourse Culture. Collaborative Project with Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, Valerie Youssef and others. 2007Grant, Research and Publications Fund Committee, for text, reader and online course) (Other past projects and associated funding have produced several of the publications listed)

INVITED ADDRESSES See also Papers Presented (above) for plenary and keynote addresses ADDRESSES

2019 CARIFESTA Arts and Change in the Postcolonial Imaginary, in conversation with Ngugi Wa Thiongo

2019 BOCAS Lit Fest with British Council – Border Crossings: Chaucer and Me

2018 The British Council’s Shakespeare in the Caribbean (2017) in honour of Giselle Rampaul

2014 The language of Caribbean Literature (University of the Southern Caribbean) 2014 Language and Literature in Caribbean Teaching, UTT (Corinth) 2011 Presentation on the Elderly in Creative Writing, UWI Mona Feb 17. 2010 Introduction of M Nourbese Phillip 2010 Introduction Derek Walcott, Conference in Honour of 80th Birthday 2007For Professor Gordon Rohlehr, citation at Retirement Function 2006 Introduction Proffessor Edward Baugh, 25th West Indian LiteratureConference

BOOK LAUNCHES 2008 book launch, Jennifer Rahim, Approaching Sabbaths 2006 Book Launch, Paula Morgan and Valerie Youssef, Writing Rage Other book launches, including Lise Winer, Rhonda Cobham-Sander and Bridget Brereton, Walter Arundel; Maureen Warner Lewis, Central Africa in the Caribbean; Pat Ismond, Abandoning Dead Metaphors CITATIONS (recent) Chancellor’s Award:2009 - Professor the Honourable Rex Nettleford Honorary Degrees: 2008 - Leroy Calliste, the Honorable Arthur D. Hanna, Professor Kari Polayni-Levitt, Kynaston McShine; 2007 - Justice Desiree Patricia Bernard, Camini Marajh, Edward Kent, Vera Baney; 2006 - Lloyd Best, Jamaica Kincaid, His Excellency Professor Max Richards, the Right Honorable George Price; etc Vice Chancellor’s Awards: 2008 Kit Fai Pun, 2007 John Campbell, etc (Invited Addresses also include addresses to graduating classes etc.) Chairing and participation in panels for conferences and literary festivals - most recently BOCAS Lit Fest 2016 “When Writers become Politicians.”

READINGS Numerous readings from my creative work at the Miami Book Fair, The BOCAS Literary Festival, Kingston Literary Festival, literary and cultural studies conferences, UWI St Augustine Literature Weeks, UWI Mona Literature Month, ALTA Trinidad Readings under the Trees, Carifesta, etc.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY:

2008 Moderation- the public evening with V. S. Naipaul 2005-2009 Recent conference organization (co-chairing)for conferences on Derek Walcott, Gordon Rohlehr, V.S Naipaul, Literatures in English, Cultural Studies Invited discussions with Literatures in English students, on my novels as set texts.

Administrative and Other Functions: 2011 Chair - Investigation Committee regarding disciplinary issue.

2010 Facilitator, Department Research Agenda 2009 Coordinator, Literatures in English. Undergraduate programme 2001 to 2010 Campus Orator, St. Augustine Campus 2007-2008 Coordinator, Department of Liberal Arts, Graduate Programmes

2006-2007 Semester 2. Acting Coordinator, Graduate Studies 2005-2006 Coordinator Literatures in English 2000-2006 Co-Chair Cultural Studies Initiative (responsibility for St Augustine Campus) 1999-2002. Department Chair, Department of Liberal Arts 1996-1998. Deputy Dean, Distance Education and Outreach, Faculty of Humanities and Education. 1996-1997. Coordination of Proposal for a Language Learning Centre for the Faculty of Humanities and Education. Representative to firms in Trinidad (such as National Gas Co., West Indian Tobacco Co.), on matters associated with bursaries, funding etc. 1988-1991. Department Chair, Department of Language and Linguistics. 1982-1986. Moderator, University Courses in English Language Service on UWI Committees Recent Service 2006 to 2010 Member University Appointments Committee 2006 to 2009Member Board for Graduate Studies 2005 to 2008 Member Campus Appointments Committee 2004 to 2009 Member, Campus Committee for Graduate Studies 2004 to 2009 Member, Campus Committee for Research and Publications 2003 to 2010 Member of Senate Committee for Ordinances and Regulations Past Service on Committees: (UNIVERSITY) University Academic Committee; University Library Committee; University Planning and Estimates Committee. (CAMPUS) Academic Board; Planning and Estimates Committee; Finance and General; Campus Council; Campus Research Fund Committee; Library Committee; Academic Board Sub-committee on Student Matters (Chair). (FACULTY) Standing Committee of Assessments and Promotions; Entrance Committee; Distance Education (Convener); Summer Courses (Convener); Campus Research Fund; Student Matters.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: 2006 to present Consultant Oxford English Dictionary Numerous invited reviews of publications for scholarly journals and University Presses. Judge for literary awards – most recently BOCAS Literary Festival 2016. SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY: 2003- 2005 Member of the Teaching Service Commission, Trinidad andTobago 1998 - 2002 Scholarship Selection Committee (Trinidad andTobago Government.) 1995-1996 Cabinet appointed committee to work out the modalitiesof relationship between

The University of the West Indies and the NationalInstitute of Higher Education, Research and Technology

1988 to 1991. Committee of National Chapter of the Caribbean Language Institute for Trinidad and Tobago for the forming of a national policy for the removal of language barriers. PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Membership on Associations and Editorial Boards 2009 to 2014 Editorial Board Tout Moun 2005 to 2011 Editorial Board Journal of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2004 to present Editorial Board, Caribbean Quarterly. 2000-2002. President, Society for Caribbean Linguistics. 1976 to Present Member, Society for Caribbean Linguistics