Dr. Denise deCaires Narain is Emeritus Reader in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Sussex. She taught courses on postcolonial, Caribbean and women’s writing and on postcolonial feminist discourses. She has published widely on Caribbean women’s writing, including two monographs, Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Poetry: Making Style and Writers and Their Work: Olive Senior, as well as several essays from current research on the representation of servants in postcolonial women’s writing. She is co-editor for Palgrave’s Contemporary Women’s Writing series and co-editor of the journal Women: A Cultural Review.