Department of English

 Hyacinth Simpson
Associate Professor
PhD, York University

Office: JOR 1035
Phone: 416-979-5000 ext 6148
E-mail: simpson@ryerson.ca

Dr. Hyacinth Simpson received her B.A. and M. Phil. from the University of the West Indies (Mona) and her Ph.D. (Caribbean and Post-colonial Literatures and Theory) from York.  She taught at York and the University of Calgary and now also teaches in Ryerson's M.A. in Immigration and Settlement Studies. Her research on Caribbean literature and theories of diaspora and orality has appeared in The Toronto Review, the Journal of West Indian Literature, the Journal of Caribbean Studies, Wasafiri, Interventions and Callaloo among others. She guest edited an issue for the Journal of West Indian Literature, is editor of MaComère, a journal by and about Caribbean women and their works, and recently produced a CD on Kamau Brathwaite's Middle Passages. She is currently co-editing a reference text on Caribbean writers in Canada for Caribbean Studies Press, and editing a book of essays, Caribbean Migrations, for Cambridge Scholars Press.