Merle hodge biography

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Occupations: Teacher; writer; activist.

Formal Education: Ph.D. Literatures in English, University of the West Indies (2007).

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Doctoral thesis on “Earl Lovelace and the Evolution of Voice in the History of the Novel in Trinidad and Tobago”.
B.A. (1965) and M.Phil. (1967), University of London

Employment:
Retired Senior Lecturer - Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities and Education, University of the West Indies, St.

Augustine. Taught West Indian and African Diaspora Literature; Creative Writing (Prose Fiction).
 Formerly Coordinator of the English Language Foundations Programme at UWI, St. Augustine.
Teacher / lecturer at secondary and tertiary levels in four Caribbean countries from the 1970s to the present.
Ongoing: facilitator and co-facilitator of creative writing workshops.

Public Service:
Resource person in education / awareness programmes of many NGOs.
Membership on a number of public service bodies,