Academic Staff

Dr
Schuyler
Esprit

Job title: 
Lecturer
Email: 
schuyler.esprit@uwimona.edu.jm

Staff

Overview
Qualification: 
B.A, English Language & Literature (Brooklyn College)
M.A, English Language & Literature (University of Virginia)
PhD, English Language & Literature (University of Maryland College Park)
Biography

Schuyler Esprit is the Founding Director of Create Caribbean Research Institute, the first digital humanities center in the Caribbean. As a scholar of Caribbean literary and cultural studies, her research areas of interest include Caribbean literary and cultural studies, environmental and ecological humanities, digital scholarship, and new media studies. Dr. Esprit has placed digital humanities in conversation with community activism, public education and student civic engagement in the Eastern Caribbean. Dr. Esprit continues to write and publish on Caribbean literature, including on the impact of reading in communities in real and virtual spaces. Her book Imprinted: The Social History of Caribbean Reading is forthcoming with Papillote Press.