Joan Anim-Addo

Joan Anim-Addo is a Grenadian-born academic, poet, playwright and publisher, who is Professor of Caribbean Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Academic career

Born in Grenada, Joan Amin-Addo joined the faculty of Goldsmiths, University of London, in 1994, as founder and Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies.[1]

She has taught at Vassar College in the USA and lectured at many universities internationally, including SUNY Geneseo (USA), the University of Turku in Finland and the University of Trento (Italy).[2] She has also led workshops on creative non-fiction writing.[3]

At Goldsmiths, she is the convenor for the undergraduate options "Caribbean Women's Writing" and "Black British Literature", as well as convenor of the "Literature of the Caribbean and its Diasporas" pathway within the Comparative Literary Studies MA programme.[1] She is also co-convenor, with Deirdre Osborne, of the world's first MA in Black British Writing,[1][4][5] which Hannah Pool described as a "landmark for black culture", while novelist Alex Wheatle sees it adding "to the fabric of British literature".[6]

Publishing and writing

In 1995 Anim-Addo founded Mango Publishing, specialising in the "Caribbean voice", with a particular focus on women's writing, the Mango list featuring books by such writers as Beryl Gilroy, Velma Pollard and Jacob Ross.[7]

In 2008 she wrote the libretto to Imoinda, a re-writing of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (first published in 1688).[8] Anim-Addo's other published work also includes poetry collections — Haunted by History in 2004 and Janie Cricketing Lady in 2006 – and a literary history, Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women’s Writing (2007). She co-edited I Am Black, White, Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe and Interculturality and Gender (2009), and is the founder-editor of New Mango Season, the Journal of Caribbean Women's Writing.[9]

In December 2016 Anim-Addo was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for "invaluable contributions to literature and to literary and cultural studies" by the literary quarterly journal Callaloo.[1]

Selected bibliography

  • Framing the Word: Gender & Genre in Caribbean Women's Writing (editor), Whiting & Birch, 1996
  • Sugar, Spices And Human Cargo: An Early Black History of Greenwich, Greenwich Leisure Services, 1996
  • Haunted by History: Poetry, Mango Publishing, 2004
  • Another Doorway Visible Inside the Museum (editor), Mango Publishing, 2004
  • Janie: Cricketing Lady : a Journey Poem (1920s-2004) : Carnival and Hurricane Poems
  • I Am Black/White/Yellow: An Introduction to the Black Body in Europe (co-editor, with Suzanne Scafe), Mango Publishing, 2007
  • Imoinda, or She Who Will Lose Her Name: A Play for Twelve Voices in Three Acts, Mango Publishing, 2008

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Oliver Fry, "Professor Joan Anim-Addo receives top award for services to literature", Goldsmiths, 19 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Speakers: Joan Anim-Addo", "Black" British Aesthetics Today: The Howard University Symposium, 8 April 2006.
  3. ↑ "2017 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop", Repeating Islands, 8 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Joan Anim-Addo and Sarah Cox, "New chapter begins for the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies", Goldsmiths, 12 October 2015.
  5. ↑ Tom Morgan, "Celebrating Black History Month", Goldsmiths, 12 october 2015.
  6. ↑ Sarah Cox, "Introducing the MA Black British Writing - 'It’s a story that hasn’t really been told'", Goldsmiths, 26 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Joan Anim-Addo, "Mango Publishing", in Alison Donnell, Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture, Routledge, 2002, p. 191.
  8. ↑ Lisa Marchi, "The Transformative Potential of Imoinda: An Interview with Joan Anim-Addo", Synthesis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  9. ↑ "Joan Anim-Addo", Black British Women Writers.
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