Ms. Margaret Gill
BA, MA, MPhil

Tutor, Fundamentals of Written English Programme

Tel. (246) 417-4532
Fax: (246) 424-0634
E-mail: margaret.gill (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

Worked in research, training and policy development at UWI ISER and in 2 UN agencies (ILO, UNIFEM) (8 yrs).   Asst. General Secretary, Research and Education responsible for the Public Workers Academy of NUPW (4 yrs).   Asst. Lecturer and Co-ordinator  UWI courses Fundamentals of Written English (FWE) and Caribbean Civilisation (5years).  Presently Tutor FWE.  Extensive outreach experience, including 6 yrs Chairwoman Caribbean Association Feminist Research and Action, and in radio/television promotion of the arts.  Published poet who is also nationally and internationally awarded.

Research Interests:

Novels of George Lamming; literature and music; literature and popular culture.

Select Publications:

• Women, Work and Development. Monograph with Joycelin Massiah, Barbados: ISER, U.W.I., 1983.
  
  
• Poems published in several literary magazines including Bim, Barbados; and the following anthologies: Aftermath: The Best of Third World Poets, 1977; Creation Fire: An Anthology of Caribbean Women’s Poetry, 1990; The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, 2005.
  
  
• “Kamau Brathwaite: Historian as Epic Poet.” Feature Address at the opening session for a Colloquium “Between Caliban and Sycorax: Kamau Brathwaite and Caribbean Culture.” At New York University, December 8-9, 2000.
  
  
• Lyric You: For Kamau Brathwaite on His 70th Birthday. Barbados: INTELEK International, 2000.
  
  
• “Nursing Politics and Social Change in the Caribbean: The Nita Barrow Years”, chapter in Stronger, Surer, Bolder: Ruth Nita Barrow: Social Change and International Development. Eds. Eudine Barriteau and Alan Cobley. Jamaica: UWI Press, 2001.
  
  
• “Calypso Aesthetic in George Lamming’s Novel, In the Castle of My Skin.” Chapter in
  Caribbean Music and Caribbean Literature. Ed. Timothy Reiss. New Jersey and Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004.

Membership:

Commissioner, Government of Barbados National Mental Health Commission (role of Advocate 2008-2012).