Over the last 30 years I have have taught undergraduates, postgraduates and supervised research degrees at the Universities of Hull, Warwick, Northampton and York St John. My major publications include: Grace Nichols, the first ever book-length study of Guyanese/ black British writer, Grace Nichols, published by Northcote House/Liverpool University Press in 2007. The co-edited collection (with Janet Wilson & Cris Sandru), Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for a New Millennium, published by Routledge in 2009. http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Rerouting-the-Postcolonial-isbn9780415543255 I also co-edited (with Alison Donnell) The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, first published in 1996. http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/The-Routledge-Reader-in-Caribbean-Literature-isbn9780415120494 My latest monograph, Food, Text and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean, was published in 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield. It is part of a wider cluster of research publications on Postcolonial Food Cultures, including: * 'Caribbean Cravings', a chapter in the Routledge Companion to Food and Literature (2018), * 'On the “Not Translated”: Rethinking Translation and Food in Cross-Cultural Contexts' in Journal of Multicultural Discourse (2017) * guest editorship of a special issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing (2018) on 'Culinary Cultures: Food and the Postcolonial', which includes an original article by myself: "If I could Mix Drinks Like my Grandfather, I would be worth marrying...". I also work on Black British poetry, language politics, issues of canon-formation and Black British women's writing, especially the work of Andrea Levy and Grace Nichols. My latest publications in this area include: *'Britain and the Caribbean' in Ronald Cummings and Alison Donnell eds, Caribbean Literature in Transition, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press: 2021. * "'This is London! This is Life!' Migrant Time in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners", in Time, the City and the Literary Imagination, edited by Anne- Marie Evans and Kaley Kramer, Palgrave Macmillan: 2021. * 'Vernacular Voices: Black British Poetry' , in the Cambridge History of Black British and Asian British Writing, edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein (Cambridge University Press: 2020) *'Black British Poetry' in The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry 1945-2010, edited by Prof Ed Larrissy (CUP: 2015). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cambridge-Companion-British-Companions-Literature/dp/1107462843 In 2019-21 I co-edited a special double issue of ARIEL 53.1-2 to be published early 2022 on 'Andrea Levy in Memoriam' with international colleagues Dr Henghameh Saroukhani and Dr Michael Perfect. This ambitious double issue launches a new field of Levy Studies and includes articles by internationally recognized scholars as well as exciting previously unpublished work by Levy, written just before her death in 2019. It includes a pedagogic piece by myself 'Reading Against the Grain: Teaching The Long Song intertextually' which focuses on my teaching practice at York St John as part of wider strategies to decolonise the Literature curriculum. In another recent pedagogic publication ‘Culinary Cultures’: Theorising Postcolonial Food Cultures' I reflect on the theory and practice of using interdisciplinary food studies to teach across global spaces on a research-led undergraduate module, as part of a larger programme of decolonising the curriculum. This is a commissioned chapter, invited on the basis of my teaching practice and reputation, and appears in Charlotte Beyer ed. Decolonizing English (Palgrave Teaching the New English Series: 2022). I am a Founding Editor of JPW, the international Journal of Postcolonial Writing (formerly World Literature Written in English), published by Taylor & Francis. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1744- 9855&linktype=5 . I am associate editor of the Palgrave series "Teaching the New English" Currently I am working on a commissioned monograph, Caribbean Literature: Twenty-first Century Perspectives to be published by Routledge in 2022/3.