Dr. Nicola Hunte
BA, PhD (UWI)

Teaching Assistant, Literatures in English

Tel. (246) 417-4402
Fax: (246) 424-0634
E-mail: nicola.hunte (at) cavehill.uwi.edu

Brief Bio:

Nicola Hunte is a doctoral graduate of the Literatures in English programme of Cave Hill, UWI. She began her academic relationship with the university as a UWI Open Scholar and continued in her post-graduate experience as the beneficiary of the UWI-Emory exchange. Dr. Hunte has lectured in the areas of literary criticism and Caribbean literature as well as for introductory courses to drama, poetry and prose fiction.

Research Interests:

Wilson Harris’s critical essays; African-American women’s writing; Afro-diasporan literary criticism.

Select Publications:

Dr. Hunte has published part of her doctoral thesis in “Notions of Myth, Gestures of Masquerade,” Shibboleths: A Journal of Comparative Theory. 2.1 (December 2007).  The entire dissertation has been published as a monograph, entitled Omeros and Beloved through Wilson Harris’s Cross-Cultural Imagination with Lambert Academic Publishing in 2010.  She has also published a review of the Dramaworks (Barbados) Ltd. Production of “Pantomime” in CHILL News, Issue 10, November 2009