Chair of the Department of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York, Professor Glyne Griffith, will deliver the 9th Annual Edward Baugh Distinguished Lecture this Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11a.m in the Philip Sherlock Centre, University of the West Indies, Mona. His lecture is entitled “How BBC Radio Served West Indian Literature: 1943-1958.” The event is hosted by the Department of Literatures in English, UWI, Mona Campus.
 
 
Professor Griffith is a well-respected scholar in the field of Caribbean literary and cultural studies. He received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the City University of New York and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of the West Indies, Mona. His research interests include representations of race and the discourse of blackness, Caribbean cultural identities, and gender, imperialism and nationalism in West Indian literature.  Professor Griffith’s most recent research interest examines the history of the BBC in relation to its impact on the development of West Indian literature, and   is the subject of his forthcoming book.  He has done extensive research on West Indian literary luminaries such as Edward Baugh, George Lamming, Kamau Brathwaite and V.S. Naipaul. Professor Griffith is the author of Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel (1996), the co-editor of Color, Hair and Bone: Race in the Twenty-First Century (2008) and Caribbean Cultural Identities (2001). He has also published numerous essays on Caribbean literature and culture. His most recent publication is an article entitled “The BBC’s Caribbean Voices and Its ‘Critics’ Circle’: Radio Criticism and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature,” published in the book Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature, edited by J. Dillon Brown and Leah R. Rosenberg (University Press of Mississippi). The Department of Literatures in English is certain that his lecture on Sunday will be insightful, thought-provoking and beneficial to anyone interested in the role of radio in the development of West Indian literature.
 
 
Professor Griffith also held the position of Chair of the Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies at University at Albany, State University of New York (2006-2010). He is an Associate Professor of English at University of Albany, State University of New York and a previous Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University and Bucknell University. Professor Griffith started his teaching career as a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. He was an associate editor of Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism for over a decade.  He is the current Co-Editor for the Journal of West Indian Literature and an Advisory Editor for Caribbean Quarterly, the Latino(a) Research Review and Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal.He has served on many academic boards and committees and won several grants and awards.
 
The public is invited to attend.

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