Evelyn O’Callaghan - Univ of the West Indies

Evelyn O’Callaghan is Professor of West Indian Literature in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature at the Cave Hill (Barbados) campus of the University of the West Indies. She has published Woman Version: Theoretical Approaches to West Indian Fiction by Women (London: Macmillan, 1993), The Earliest Patriots [Historical fiction] (London: Karia Press, 1986) and other articles and chapters on West Indian literature, particularly by women. Her edition of a nineteenth century Caribbean novel, With Silent Tread by Frieda Cassin, appeared in the Macmillan Caribbean Classics series in 2002, and her latest book, Women Writing the West Indies 1804-1939: A Hot Place, Belonging to Us, was published by Routledge in 2003. She is one of the editors of the Journal of West Indian Literature, and serves on the advisory committees several scholarly journals, as well as reader for Callaoo, Postcolonial Text, Ma Comère, Ariel, Caribbean Quarterly and The Caribbean Writer.