NAME: CYNTHIA JAMES
Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), George Brown College
Mass Communications, Television Broadcasting, Extra-Mural Department,
University of the West Indies
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lecturer in Short Fiction & Literature for Children, University of Winnipeg, 2009
Lecturer in English Education,
University of the West Indies,
Lecturer in English, University of the
Part-time Lecturerr, Creative Writing Fiction and Poetry,
Part-time Lecturerr,
English for Academic Purposes (English Composition), Department of Language and Linguistics, University of the
Tutor, Communicatiion Skills,
Extra-Mural Department, University of the
Assistant English Examiner, Caribbean Examinations Council, English & Pre-Secondary Entrance Essay 1980-94
Teacher Trainee, Educational Television, Ministry of
Education, Activating Media, 1993-1994
Teacher Trainer, Written Composition, IDB Teacher Training Program, 1991
Teacher Trainee, Remedial English, Extra-Mural
Department, University of the
BOOKS
Literary Criticism:
Fiction:
Sapodilla Terrace.
Bluejean:
A Novel.
Vigil.
La Vega and Other Poems.
Soothe Me Music.
Iere,
My Love.
SAMPLE ARTICLES in books and peer reviewed literary journals
"Creative and Cultural Identity in the work of Anson Gonzales: A Study of Proseleela, Chela Quest, and Crossroads of Dream as Spiritual and Literary Autobiography." Postcolonial Text 4.4, 2008
"Performing West Indian Childhood across Oceans and Time: Gender and Identity in Marlene Nourbese Phillip's Harriet’s Daughter, Merle Hodge’s For the Life of Laetitia, and Cyril Dabydeen’s Sometimes Hard." CCL/LCJ: Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 33.1, Spring 2007, 30-54
" 'You’ll Soon Get Used to Our Language': Language, Parody and West Indian Identity in Andrea Levy’s Small Island." Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 5.1, Spring 2007; http://anthurium.miami.edu/volume_5/issue_1/james-language.htm
"From Orature to Literature in Jamaican and Trinidadian Children’s Folk Traditions," Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 30.2, 2005, 164-78
“Lynn Joseph’s Diverse Representations of Childhood in the Caribbean,” Sankofa 3, 2004, 38-49.
"Twentieth-Century Caribbean Literature in Retrospect." Wasafiri 33, 2001, 37-41>
"Reconnecting the Caribbean-American Diaspora in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones and Erna Brodber’s Louisiana." CLA Journal XLV, December 2001
"Gender and Hemispheric Shifts in the Caribbean Narrative in English at the Close of the 20th Century," Jouvert: A Journal of Post-"Colonial Studies 5. 3, Summer 2001. http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/cyja.htm
"Caliban in Y2K?: Hypertext and New Pathways," For the Geography of a Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite, Ed. Timothy J. Reiss, Trenton, NJ: AWP, 2001, 351-361
"Playing the Whole Road--Trinidad Theatre", New Theater Review, Lincoln Center Theater 8, May 1993
"The Carnival Archives." Callaloo 30.2, Fall 2007, Johns Hopkins University Press
"Pigtail Soup" in Words are Powerful. UNICEF, Summer 2007
"Woman Descendant," Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, UK: OUP, 2005, 233-34
"Three Poems: Beachboy, CSN TV (Caribbean Satellite Network), Journeys," For the Geography of a Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite, Ed. Timothy J. Reiss. Trenton, NJ: AWP, 2001, 103-109
"Six Poems," Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies 4. 2, Winter 2000
"Rites," Poem and Personal Essay in Caribbean Writer 9,10 & 13, 1995, 1996, 1999
“Birthpoem," Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, A Publication of the Americas Society, English Caribbean Literature and Arts, 50,1995
Poems in Sisters of Caliban--Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean, Ed. M. J. Fenwick, Azul Editions, Va. 1996
Short Fiction and Poetry in Massachusetts Review, Contemporary Caribbean Culture & Art 35 (3-4) 1994
Poems in Drumvoices Review3 (1-2), English Department, Southern Illinois University, 1993-94
Poems in Literary Review 35 (4), Women Poets of the Caribbean, Farleigh Dickinson University, NJ, Summer 1992
Poems in Crossing Water-Contemporary Poetry of the English-Speaking Caribbean, The Greenfield Review Press, NY, 1992
Poems in Graham House Review, Recent Poetry from the West Indies 14, Colgate University Press, NY, Spring 1991
“Using Blogging as a Teaching/Learning Tool – An Activity Systems Analysis.” Caribbean Curriculum 16(1), 2009, 1-22
"Impacting Struggling Adolescent Readers: A Socio-Psycholinguistic Study of Junior Secondary Students in Trinidad." Caribbean Curriculum 14, 2007, 1-29
"Themes and Metaphors in the Autobiographical Narratives of New Sector Secondary Teachers in Trinidad and Tobago," Caribbean Curriculum 12, 2005, 57-87
"Breaking the Silence: Using Journals to Stimulate Self-evaluation Toward Change in the Trinidad Primary School System," Caribbean Curriculum 11, 2004, 85-113
"The Status of Literature in Six Types of Trinidad Secondary Schools: Issues, Implications, and Recommendations," Caribbean Curriculum 10, 2003, 1-36
Review of Karen Sands-O'Connor's Soon Come Home to This Island: West Indians in British Children’s Literature (2008) in The Journal of Children's Literature Studies 5.3, 2008
Review of Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women. Simone A. James Alexander. New West Indian Guide (NWIG) 76, 1 & 2, 2002
Review of Places of Silence, Journeys of Freedom: The Fiction of Paule Marshall. Eugenia C. DeLamotte, New West Indian Guide (NWIG) 74, 1 & 2, 2000, 146-48
FELLOWSHIPS,
INTERNATIONAL INVITATIONS AND COMMENDATIONS
XVI International Poetry Festival of Medellín, June-July 2006
Participant at the 29th Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature, Cambridge University, UK , July 2005
Honorary Fellow and Writer-in-Residence, Hong Kong Baptist University, November - December 2004
Ivan Earle Taylor Award for Outstanding Achievement, English Department, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1996
National Endowment for the Humanities Award (NEH),
James Michener
Fellowship, University of Miami Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, 1992,
Excellence in Creative Writing Award,
University of Miami Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, 1991,
TRINIDADIAN AWARDS
National Petroleum Playwriting Competition 1991, Special Prize, Mine Own Hero
National Literary Award, Ministry of Culture, Playwriting, 1983, The Artist
National Literary Award, Ministry of Culture, 1982, The Coalpot
National Literary Awards, 1981, Short Story and Poetry, The Tribute and "Pet Thief"