Elaine Savory
Emeritus Professor
Email
savorye@newschool.edu
Office Location
A - 66 West 12th Street
Profile
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.
