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DLIE Student Ambassador Programme

October 01, 2024

FHE Literatures in English School Tour

September 26, 2024

Call for Student Artists

Open to all FHE and CARIMAC students. No exhibition fee. Visual art (paintings, photographs, etc)  must be mounted. If a visitor would like to purchase the work, we put them in direct contact with you (the artist) and the entire commisssion is yours (we're just here to show off your work).
Further conditions apply.

September 10, 2024

The Passing of Mr David Williams

September 05, 2024

Course Listings for Semester 1 2024-2025

The 2024-2024 Semester 1 Course listing. Level 1:  LITS1001- Introduction to Poetry on Mondays & Thursdays at 10am;  LITS1006- Introduction to Film Studies on Tuesdays at 12pm;  PUBL1001- The World of Publishing on Mondays at 3pm.  Level 2:  LITS2207- Introduction to Shakespeare on Mondays at 1pm and Tuesdays at 4pm;  LITS2304- Key Issues in Literary Criticism II on Tuesdays at 3pm and Thursdays at 12pm;  LITS2603- Creative Writing Poetry on Fridays at 2pm;  LITS2706- Reggae Poetry on Tuesdays at 9am;  LITS2905- Film History on Thursdays at 12pm;  PUBL2001- Publishing in the Caribbean: From Idea to Product on Tuesdays at 11am.  Level 3:  LITS3402- Classic American Prose Fiction on Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm;  LITS3504- West Indian Literature: Special Author “A” on Wednesdays at 10am;  LITS3605- Creative Writing Senior Project on Mondays at 10am;  LITS3806- Popular Film on Tuesdays at 2pm; and PUBL3003- Editing and Proofreading on Thursdays at 12pm.

August 08, 2024

Welcome to our new HOD

A special announcement: The Department of Literatures in English welcomes our new Head of Department, Dr Lisa Tomlinson

August 08, 2024

4.5 and Above for DLIE in CER

The Department of Literatures in English Congratulates Dr Isis Semaj-Hall and Dr Lisa Tomlinson
June 24, 2024

Dr Sharma Taylor is the Department of Literatures in English Writer-in-Residence

The Department of Literatures in English (DLIE) announces the award-winning and critically acclaimed Jamaican writer, Dr Sharma Taylor, as Writer-in-Residence for the period of Semester 2, 2024.

The author of the novel, What A Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You (2022) published by Virago Press, UK, Dr Taylor is the winner of the 2020 Queen Mary University of London, Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award and the inaugural 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize   from Bocas Lit Fest. Her work also won second prize in the 2020 First Novel Prize, organised by Daniel Goldsmith Associates Ltd. Dr Taylor has been short/longlisted for numerous literary prizes and awards, including the recently announced V.S. Prichett Short Story Prize for her story, “The three deaths of Nina Carmichael”. She was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize no less than four times.  Dr Taylor has also been announced as a 2023 Musgrave Medal awardee for Literature in the Bronze category.

A proud UWI graduate and corporate attorney, Dr Taylor holds an LLB and LLM from The UWI, and a PhD in Copyright Law from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She has received extensive training in creative writing, and as Writer-in-Residence is responsible for the delivery of the Level 2 course, “Creative Writing: Prose Fiction”. The post of Writer-in-Residence is intended to help develop the department’s creative writing programme and provide mentorship for aspiring writers in the UWI undergraduate community.

On March 21, Dr Taylor will read at “Love Affair with Literature”, one of the department’s signature activities. She will be joined on the stage by poet and journalist, Mel Cooke, author of the poetry collection 11/9 (Blouse and Skirt Books, 2008). The event will also feature a special tribute to the late Professor Emeritus, Edward Baugh, directed by Eugene Williams and Carolyn Allen.

“Love Affair” begins at 5.30 p.m. and will be held in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1), UWI, Mona. It will be preceded by another DLIE signature event, “Poetry Clash”, a poetry competition featuring the performance of unpublished poems, at 2.30 p.m. in the Faculty of Humanities and Education courtyard. All are welcome.

March 07, 2024

The Retirement of Dr Norval Edwards

January 16, 2024

Faculty Tribute to Professor Edward Baugh

December 13, 2023

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