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Jamaica |
General Presentation: |
Elizabeth Wilson, former head of the French Department at the University of the West Indies (Mona campus, Jamaica), is now retired after having been a senior lecturer in French language and literature at the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. She also taught postgraduate students in the Department of Anglophone Literature. At international level, Elizabeth Wilson has worked as guest lecturer at a number of American and Canadian universities, as well as at Radcliffe College’s Bunting Institute in 1989, after being awarded a Fullbright grant. As an academic, her research mainly focuses on women writers and Caribbean literature. She co-edited the first anthology of prose works by Caribbean women, entitled Her True-True Name (1989), and has also translated many poems, articles, short stories and novels, including the Guadeloupian author Gisèle Pinneau’s L’exil selon Julia (as Exile according to Julia), as well as co-translating a chapter of UNESCO’s General History of the Caribbean. |
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Prizes and distinctions |
2004: raised to the rank of Officer of Academic Palms by the French Government. 1996: nominated as a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms by the French Government 1988: Winner of the Unites States Fullbright Award |