Elections for committee members are held at the AGM of the Society at the annual conference, in accordance with the society’s constitution SCS_Constitution. Elections of ordinary members are held annually, and elections for the executive positions are held once every two years. Nomination forms can be downloaded here.
The current committee of the Society was elected in July 2023.
SCS Executive
Chair: Leighan RENAUD / University of Bristol, UK
Leighan Renaud is a lecturer in Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol. Her research interests include literary representations of motherhood and matrifocality in 21st-century Anglophone Caribbean fiction, and oral folk traditions in the Eastern Caribbean.
Vice Chair: Janelle RODRIQUES / University of Washington (WA), USA
Janelle Rodriques is an Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Literary Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. She specialises in Anglocreole Caribbean Literature of the long twentieth century. She is the author of Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature: Moving through the Margins (Routledge, 2019).
Secretary: Kesewa JOHN / Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Treasurer: Christian HØGSBJERG / University of Brighton, UK
Conference Coordinator: Liz EGAN / University of Warwick, UK
Membership Secretary: Mark HARRIS / University of Cincinnati (OH), USA
Ordinary Committee Members
Miriam GORDON / University of Warwick, UK: Postgraduate Students’ Representative
Renée LANDELL / Royal Holloway University, UK: IT Sub-Committee Lead
Justine COLLINS / SOAS, UK
Kristy WARREN / University of Lincoln, UK
Pascalyne RÉPIR / Université des Antilles pôle, GP (Guadeloupe): Intern