Dr. Andrew Armstrong
BA (UWI), MA (UWI), PhD (UWI)

Lecturer in Literatures in English

Tel.: (246) 417-4415
Fax: (246) 434 0634
E-mail: andrew.armstrong (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

I have been with the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature since 2000. I teach African Literature, African Film, The Novel and Contemporary Prose Fiction. In addition, I have recently taught, at the graduate level, Postcolonial Cinema and The West Indies in the Colonialist Text.

Research Interests:

African Literatures (with particular emphasis on recent publications) and Film; the history of the novel including Black Atlanticism and the novel; the Caribbean short story.

Select Publications:

• “Writing and Reading: Intertextuality and the ‘Anxiety’ of Interpretation in Mark McWatt’s Suspended Sentences” Journal of West Indian Literature (November 2008).
  
  
• “Reporting from the Edge of Reality: Writing as Phantom Limb in Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Fiction” Journal of International Women’s Studies (May 2009).
  
  
• “Narrative and the Re-Co[r]ding of Cultural Memory in Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles and Snakepit.” Journal of African Cultural Studies (Dec. 2009).

Book Chapter in Preparation

• “Liminality and the Poetics of Space in the Short Fiction of Mark McWatt and Kwame Dawes” in Lucy Evans, Mark McWatt and Emma Smith eds., The Caribbean Short Story: Critical Perspectives, Peepal Tree Press (forthcoming 2011).