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Elaine Savory

Emeritus Professor

Email
savorye@newschool.edu

Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street

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Elaine Savory

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Scholarship is discovery, writing is craft, teaching is sharing and the joy of community. The discipline I love brings them together, and then becomes a productive part of our rich collective intellectual community.

Degrees Held

PhD, Postcolonial Literature, University of the West Indies; MPhil, World Literature, University of Leeds; BA (First Class Honors), English and American Literature, University of Leeds

Recent Publications

  • “Contemporary CaribbeanWriters in Conversation (series): Interview with Pamela Mordecai”,  Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Disaporas, Vol 7, No 2. 2004
  • “Interview with Olive Senior”, Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and its Disaporas, Vol 8, No 3. 2005
  • “Tidalectics: An Theory of the Literary Relationship of the West Indies and the U.S." (keynote speech, July 2005, Toronto and public lecture, October 2005, Ithaca, now in press)
  • “National-Transnational: Bruce St John’s Barbadian Voice” (in press).
  • Review of Kamau Brathwaite’s Born to Slow Horses in Wasafiri, Summer 2006.

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