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Hyacinth Simpson
Media & Culture
DepartmentEnglish (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Areas of ExpertiseCaribbean and postcolonial literatures; migration, diaspora, and transnational studies; short fiction studies; orality.
Hyacinth Simpson’s research in the areas of Caribbean, postcolonial, and diaspora studies has led to her organizing several events that allow her to bring the results of her academic work into the community. Out of the SSHRC-funded Caribbean Migrations: Negotiating Borders international conference (2005) which she hosted at Ryerson she has published articles on Caribbean migrant communities in, among other journals, Interventions and Wasafiri.
Graduate supervision mainly in the following areas:
- migration, diaspora, immigration, identities
- non-Western literatures and cultural productions of the 18th and 19th centuries
- contemporary international English literatures (particularly Caribbean and South Asian)