Speakers
- Patricia Joan Saunders
- University of Miami, Coral Gables, Associate Professor
Patricia Saunders is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, Coral Gables where she is the Co-Editor of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and co-author of Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2007) and co-editor of Music. Memory. Resistance: Calypso and the Caribbean Literary Imagination (2007). Her work has appeared in journals such as: Plantation Society in the Americas, Small Axe, The Journal of West Indian Literature and recently, Feminist Studies. Her second book, Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture, examines a range of contemporary Caribbean popular cultural modes of expression to argue that the bonds between consumption and citizenship stronger than ever despite unemployment and socioeconomic inequity. Buyers Beware is forthcoming in 2020 with Rutgers University Press.