MICRO-BIO

• Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a translator. With a prime concentration on Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Dr Roberts’ research explo...More

  Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a translator. With a prime concentration on Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, Dr Roberts’ research explores identity and race thinking in Hispanic Caribbean cultural production. To date, she has published in the areas of race and ethnicity in the Hispanic Caribbean, as well as afro-hispanic literature and culture. Her book-length publications include Main Themes in Twentieth Century Afro-Hispanic Caribbean Poetry: A Literary Sociology, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009 and Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Short Narrative by Caribbean Women Writers, (co-edited with Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw), Jamaica: UWI Press, 2012. Less

EXPERIENCE

• The University of the West Indies

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Modern Languages and Linguistics
  • January 2018 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Birmingham, UK

  • PhD in Hispanic Studies
  • October 1991 to June 1998

  Thesis: Afro-Hispanic Caribbean Poetry

• Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

  • MA in Spanish
  • August 1986 to May 1988

• Queens University, Kingston, Canada

  • BA in French and Spanish
  • September 1981 to June 1985

  French literature; Hispanic Literature

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