Marika Preziuso - Birkbeck, University of London

Dr. Marika Preziuso teaches at Birkbeck college, University of London. Marika Preziuso is Associate Fellow at the Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University. She recently completed her PhD thesis at the School of English, Birkbeck, University of London. Her thesis is entitled Mapping the ‘Lived-Imagined’ Caribbean: women writers from the Caribbean Diaspora and visions of ‘hybridity’. Marika is also Research Associate of the project 'Space and Place in Translation: Postcolonial Geographies in the work of Wilson Harris and Maryse Condé' with Patricia Noxolo. Her publications include ‘Do I belong here? Images of – female – Belonging and Cultural Hybridity in Erna Brodber’s Myal, Velma Pollard’s Homestretch and Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge’ in the Journal of Caribbean Literatures (2005).