Department of English

Rhonda Arrindell, Assistant Professor, Rhetoric & Composition

B.A. (Linguistics), M.Ed. (Administration), Ph.D. (English: Linguistics)

Office: Room 147-C, CATS, Oakes Field Campus

E-mail: rhonda.arrindell@ub.edu.bs

B.A. (English Literature), M.A. (English Literature), Ph.D. (English Literature)

Office:A-110, Keva M. Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4382

E-mail:peter.bailey@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Victorian Literature; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Areas of Expertise:

Fin de siècle literature & culture; Decadence & Aestheticism; queer theory/lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender studies

Research Interests:

Aestheticism, cosmopolitanism, decadence, queer pedagogy

Current Research:

My current research studies the critical writing of late-Victorian aesthetes, arguing that even as aestheticist handbooks impart hermeneutic principles, they are embarrassed by their didacticism. Ironically, they only present rules of reading art through staging scenes wherein teaching becomes unnecessary because the intended student has a repressed knowledge of aesthetic criticism. These forgotten tenets emerge into consciousness when the aspirant connoisseur has a deeply affecting erotic encounter with an uncannily animate art object. Through these queer fantasies, the aesthetes preserve the liberal ideal of individuals who judge solely through their own authorization. The writing of the aesthetes is a rich pedagogical resource therefore since it theorizes the dangers of pedagogical exchange the effective role of eroticism in education and methods of less authoritarian education.

A.A. (English Language & Literature), B.A. (English & Spanish), M.A. English), M.Sc. (International Trade Policy), Ph.D. (Comparative Cultural Studies/Caribbean Studies)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4208

E-mail:ian.bennett@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

History, Film & Criticism, Trade, Gender & Development, Cultural Studies

Research Interests:

Migration, Gender & Development, Art & Cultural Representation

B.A. (English), M.A. (English), Ph.D. (English Language & Literature)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4214

E-mail:ceron.byrant@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

World Literature, English, Cultural Studies, Composition

Research Interests:

Composition, World Literature, Cultural Studies

B.A. (English Literature), M.A. (Composition & Rhetoric), Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Studies: English, Education & Sociology)

Office:MHEC-300, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 397-2617

E-mail:earla.careybaines@ub.edu.bs

B.A. (Literature), M.A. (Literature), M.A. (English), Ph.D. (English)

Office:A-97, Keva Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4217

E-mail:mayuri.deka@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, South Asian Literature, Multi-ethnic Literature & pedagogy, Literary Theory, Film Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies

Research Interests:

Postcolonial Literature, World Literature, South Asian Literature, Multi-ethnic Literature & pedagogy, Literary Theory, Film Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies

Current Research:

Article on Caribbean Writing classroom; Article on the Psychological Effects of Tourism on Bahamian society

Saskia M. Furst, Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies; Rhetoric & Composition

B.A. (Gender Studies), B.A. (Political Science), B.A. (German Studies), Dip. (English & American Studies), Ph.D. (English Studies & the Creative Industries)

Office: G-5, Oakes Field Campus

E-mail: saskia.furst@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Aging Studies, African American Literature & Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Film Studies, Writing & Rhetoric & Rhetoric Skills

Areas of Expertise:

Afrofuturism, Aging Studies, Animation Studies, Black Feminisms, Diaspora Studies

Research Interests:

Afrofuturism, Black Girlhood Studies, Black Women & Aging, Trauma Writing

A.A. (Liberal Arts), B.A. (English), M.A. (TESOL), Ph.D.

Office:A-103 UB-North

Phone:(242) 688-5945

E-mail:sally.everson@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Anglophone Caribbean Literature, Teaching English as a Second Language

Research Interests:

Caribbean literary history, Black Atlantic Studies, postcolonial studies/critical race studies, Digital Humanities

B.A. (English), M.A. (English)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4206

E-mail:ivy.higgins@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Caribbean Literature; American Literature; Afro-American Literature; College Composition

Research Interests:

Issues in West Indian Literature with emphasis on the works of women writers

B.A. (English), M.A. (English Literature)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4205

E-mail:shaniqua.higgs@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Children’s Literature; Shakespeare

Research interests:

The intergenerational trauma of slavery; Gender stereotypes perpetuated in children’s fairy tales; Socio-economic, political and cultural challenges faced by the Haitian diaspora in The Bahamas

On Political Leave)

B.A., M.A.

E-mail: mark.humes@ub.edu.bs

B.A. (French & English), M.A. (Medieval Studies), Ph.D. (English)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4225

E-mail:christine.kozikowski@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

English literature

Area of Expertise:

Medieval Literature

Research Interests: Privacy, Place, Middle English Romance, Medievalism

B.A. (English), M.Sc.(Adult Education)

Office:F-8, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4497

E-mail:monique.mcfarlane-bain@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Intermediate English, English Composition

Areas of Expertise:

Adult Education, English Composition

Research Interests:

Writing Centre Work/Theory, Writing/Composition for developmental writers

Current Research:

An Examination of the Impact of Peer Tutoring on the Performance of Students in Writing & Rhetoric I. Sponsoring Agency:University of The Bahamas

A.A. (English), B.A. (English), T.C., Ph.D. (Linguistics)

Office:G-5, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4583

E-mail:helean.mcphee@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

College writing skills; Linguistics

Research Interests:

Creole Linguistics, especially Bahamian Creole

B.A. (English), M.A. (English Literature), Ph.D. (English Literature)

Office: A-103, UB-North

Phone:(242) 688-5945/5900

E-mail:rosemary.mctier@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Composition & Literature

Areas of Expertise: Remedial composition, Renaissance literature, 19th Century American Literature

Research Interests:

Ecocriticism; feminist science fiction; insects

B.A. (English), M.A. (Curriculum & Instruction)

Office:A-103, UB-North

Phone:(242) 688-5931/5900

E-mail:carol.moss@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Composition, Oral Communication, Bahamian Literature

Research Interests:

Vagrancy in Downtown Grand Bahama, Bahamas

B.A. (English), M.A. (English: Rhetoric of Science, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics), Ph.D. (English)

Office:A-97, Keva M. Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4575

E-mail:raymond.oenbring@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

English Composition; Linguistics

2016 Recipient of the Stanley Wilson Award for Excellence in Research:“Using Web 2.0 Technologies in a College Composition Classroom in the Caribbean: The Ease of the Electronic Dictionary of Bahamian English.”

2011 Recipient of the Stanley Wilson Award for Excellence in Research:“Corpus Linguistic Studies of Standard Bahamian English: A Comparative Study of Newspaper Usage”

Research Interests:

Rhetoric and Composition; Linguistics; Bahamian English

B.Sc. (English Education), M.Ed. (English Education/Curriculum), Ph.D. (English)

Office:A-110, Keva M. Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4510

E-mail:marie.sairsingh@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Caribbean/African diaspora literature; Advanced Composition

Research Interests:

Literatures of the African Diaspora; the intersection of Literature & Africana Philosophy, Caribbean Literary & Cultural theory; Gender & Cultural Studies

Current Research:

To produce an edited collection of critical essays on Bahamian literature across genres. Collaborators:Dr. Toni Francis, Florida Atlantic University; Dr. Melvin Rahming, Morehouse College; Dr. Craig Smith, University of The Bahamas

A.A. (French & Communications), B.A. (French & Spanish), M.Sc. (Linguistics), Ph.D. (Linguistics)

Office:A-110, Keva Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4242

E-mail:chanti.seymour@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Sociolinguistics: (English) Creole Grammar; History, Structure & Use of Bahamian Creole English/Bahamian Dialect; English Linguistics: Standard English Phonology, Morphology & Syntax; Introductory & Advanced Composition; Critical Inquiry (multimodal texts)

Research Interests:

Bahamian Creole English/Bahamian Dialect Phonology, Morpho-syntax & Pragmatics; Variation Analysis; Dialect Interference Issues; Teaching English as a second language/dialect to speakers of English creoles

B.A. (English), M.A. (English), Ph.D.(English)

Office:A-97, Keva Bethel Building, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4385

E-mail:craig.smith@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty/Areas of Expertise:

Gender and Literature; Bahamian Oral Tradition; Post-Colonial Literatures, Caribbean Women Writers; Race and Film

Research Interests:

20th-Century African American and Anglophone Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Film, and Gender Studies, Caribbean Masculinities

Current Research:

Black masculinity and vulnerability in popular film. “From Sweetback to Baadasssss: (Re)modeling Black Masculinity.” (forthcoming/under review)

A.A. (English), B.A. (English), M.A. (English), Ph.D. (English)

Office:Administration Building, UB-North

Phone:(242) 688-5903

E-mail:ian.strachan@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

Modern Drama, Film, Caribbean Literature

2005 Recipient of the Stanley Wilson Award for Excellence in Research:Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone CaribbeanResearch Interests:

Tourism and Culture; Black Masculinity; Caribbean Politics and Culture

A.A. (English), B.A. (English), M.A. (English)

Office:C-3, Oakes Field Campus

Phone:(242) 302-4207

E-mail:krista.walkes@ub.edu.bs

Teaching Specialty:

English Composition

Areas of Expertise:

Caribbean Literature; Bahamian Literature and Culture; Film Studies

Research Interests:

British Victorian Literature & Culture; Literary Representations of Haitians; African American Drama; The Intersection of Literature & Film