Jamaican Scholar/Writer to Lecture on Caribbean Women Writers

November 14, 2001

Scholar, poet and novelist Velma Pollard will lecture on "History and Caribbean Women Writers" at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 at the University of Richmond.

The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Tyler Haynes Commons.

Pollard is a visiting professor at Richmond this semester from the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, where she is senior lecturer in language education and dean of the faculty of education.

She is author of the book "Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari" and has written numerous articles on Caribbean Creole languages and on Caribbean literature. She also has published three volumes of poetry, two collections of short fiction, one novel and a novella.

Pollard also has edited collections of stories and folklore for use in the Jamaican School System. She has won many awards and grants, including a Fulbright Hays Senior Research Fellowship, a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship and the Caribbean 2000 Rockefeller Fellowship.