Helen Scott
  Associate Professor of English
 433 Old Mill
phone: (802) 656-4172
email:  helen.scott@uvm.edu

EDUCATION: B.A. University of Essex, England, English Literature (Class I Honours); PhD Brown University, English Literature

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
  • The Essential Rosa Luxemburg.  (Haymarket, 2008).
  • Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence. (Ashgate, 2006).
  • "Reading the Text in its Worldy Situation: Marxism, Imperialism, and Contemporary Caribbean Women's Literature." Postcolonial Text 2.1 (2006). http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/491/174
  • “Ou libéré? History, Transformation and the Struggle for Freedom in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory” in Writing Under Siege, ed. Kathleen Balutanski and Marie-Agnes Sourieau (Rodopi, 2004).
  • “‘Dem tief, dem a dam tief:’ Jamaica Kincaid’s Literature of Protest” in Callaloo 25.3 (Summer, 2002).
  • “Capitalist Modernity and the Origins of Racism” in Marxism, Modernity and Postcolonial Studies, ed. Crystal Bartolovich and Neil Lazarus (Cambridge UP, 2002).
  • “Replacing the ‘Wall of Disinformation:’ The Butterfly’s Way, Krik? Krak!  and Representation of Haiti in the USA” Journal of Haitian Studies 7.2 (Fall, 2001).

PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH: Caribbean Literature (anglophone), Global Women's Writing, Postcolonial Literature and Theory, 
Literature and Imperialism

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS: Buckham Overseas Program Director

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