Sheri-Marie Harrison

 

office: 212 Tate
phone: 573-882-2728
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office hours: F 10:00-11:30
and by appointment

Research and teaching areas:
Caribbean literature, popular
culture, film, cultural studies,
feminist and queer theories.

 

Sheri-Marie Harrison is an Assistant Professor of English. She teaches and researches Caribbean literature and culture, with focuses on gender, sexuality and popular cultural studies. She received her PhD from the University of Miami in 2008. She has worked as the Caribbean bibliographer for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and currently serves as a member of the advisory boards of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and Tout Moun: Caribbean Journal of Cultural Studies.  She has also published an essay in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and has an article forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies.


Education


PhD 2008, University of Miami


Courses Taught


  • English 8400: Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature and Literary Theory
  • English 4480/7480: African Diaspora Women Writers 
  • English 4169/7169: Major Authors: Derek Walcott and Sir V.S. Naipaul
  • English 4409/7409: The Caribbean Novel
  • English 4409/7409: Caribbean Literature 
  • English 3429: Caribbean Literature and Popular Culture
  • English 3429: Consuming the Caribbean 
  • English 2400: Introduction to African Diaspora Literature


 Selected Publications

 
 “‘Who worked this evil, brought distance between us?’ The Politics of Sexual Interaction in
Sylvia Wynter’s The Hills of Hebron” (forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies)

 

 “‘Yes, ma’am, Mr. Lowe:’ Lau A-Yin and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda,” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 7.1