George Lamming
Visiting Professor of Africana Studies, Creative Writing
George Lamming is Visiting Professor and writer-in-residence of Africana Studies and Creative Writing. A noted Caribbean novelist and cultural critic from Barbados, Lamming is the author of several books, novels, edited volumes of criticism and essays that offer insightful analyses on racism, colonization, and post colonial condition. His major publications include: Of Age and Innocence; Natives of My Person; The Emigrants; The Pleasures of Exile: Season of Adventure; and In the Castle of My Skin. He also edited Cannon Shot and Glass Beads: Modern Black Writing; and co-edited the Barbados and Guyana independence issues of New World Quarterly.
Selected Honors and Awards:
- The Guggenheim Fellowship
- Brachaman Award from Yale University
- The Casa de Las Americas Award
- The Langston Hughes Award
- Fellow of the Institute of Jamaica
Selected Publications:
- Season of Adventure
- The Emigrants
- In the Castle of My Skin
- Natives of My Person
- Water with Berries
- Pleasures of My Exhile
Courses Taught
- The Politics of Gender in the Caribbean Novel
- Philosophy, Literature and the Caribbean Novel
- The Novel in a Multicultural Context