Employment

  • January 2009-present - School of Social Sciences, the College of The Bahamas
    • Assistant Professor, Sociology
  • June-December 2008 - Cultural Affairs Division, Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Nassau, Bahamas
    • Director of Cultural Affairs
  • May 2007-June 2008 - Department of Culture, Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, Nassau, Bahamas
    • Director of Cultural Affairs
  • Feb 2006-May 2007 - The Cultural Affairs Division, Office of the Prime Minister, Nassau, Bahamas
    • Director of Cultural Affairs
  • Oct 2003-Feb 2006 - The Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture, Nassau, Bahamas
    • Director of Cultural Affairs
  • 2003-present - The Nassau Guardian, Nassau, Bahamas
  • 2000-2003 - The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas
    • 2000-present - Lecturer, School of Social Sciences (part-time)
    • 2000-present - Lecturer, School of English Studies (part-time)
  • 1995-2000 - Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, Victoria, BC, Canada
    • 1997-2000 - Housefellow (with my husband, Philip A. Burrows), McLaughlin House
    • 1995-2000 - Teacher, Social Anthropology
    • 1995-1997 - Teacher, English A1
    • 1995-1996 - Teacher, English A2
  • 1989-1992 - St Anne's High School, Fox Hill, Bahamas
    • 1991-1992 - Head of English Department
    • 1989-1992 - Teacher of English
  • 1986-1989 - Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Affairs, Bahamas
    • Youth Officer
    • Member, National Junkanoo Committee
  • 1994, 1987, 1986 - College of The Bahamas
    • Part-time Lecturer of English

Education

Publications

  • In Press. "The Midwife Delivers Lily's Son (1926)" (poem), in Yinna: Journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies (BACUS), Vol III. Nassau
  • In Press. "Good Friday, Bleeding", "Sevenling: Dancer", "soulmama" (poems), in Soundzine.
  • 2008. “The Preacher Man Saves Lily’s Soul (1914)“, “The Carpenter Seals Lily’s Widowhood (1943)” (poems), in Anti-, Featured Poet #14, October 2008
  • 2008. “The Granddaughter Sings Lily Home (1994)” (poem), in qarrtsiluni, Transformation Issue, July-September 2008
  • 2008. “Sevenling: Life is a Drying” (poem), in qarrtsiluni, Transformation Issue, July-September 2008
  • 2008. “The Carpenter Brings Lily Home (1924)” (poem), in The Barefoot Muse, Vol 7, June 2008
  • 2008. “Sevenling: The Widow Addresses her Late Husband” (poem), in The Avatar Review, Vol 10, June 2008
  • 2008. “The Mulatto Murders Lily’s Son (1948)” (poem), in Trespass Magazine, April/May 2008.
  • 2008. "Sevenling: Flying South For Winter" (poem), in Eclectica, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2008
  • 2008. "Sevenling: Rock Star", "Sevenling: You Dream" (poems), in Words-Myth, Vol. 10, Spring 2008
  • 2008. The Children's Teeth. Self-published: Lulu.com
  • 2008. Essays on Life, Volume I. Self-published: Lulu.com
  • 2007. "Roots or Routes? Migrations of Identity in The Bahamas", in Yinna: Journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies (BACUS), Vol II. Nassau
  • 2007. "The Scotsman Gives Lily Her Name (1904)", "The Obeah Woman Tells Lily's Fortune (1909)", "The Seamstress Teaches Lily to Sew (1910)" and "The Midwife Delivers Lily's Son (1926)", in II, Vol. II, July 2007
  • 2006. "Navigations: Insularity versus Cosmopolitanism in the Bahamas: Formality and Informality in an Archipelagic Nation", in Managing Island Life: Social, Economic and Political Dimensions of Formality and Informality in 'Island' Communities, (eds) Jonathan Skinner and Mils Hills. University of Abertay Press
  • 2005. "Lucifer Rex" (short story), in The Paumonak Review, Winter 2005, Issue #21 Pennsylvania. Web version here
  • 2004. "The Candyman Sells Lily Ice Cream (1917)" (poem), in At Random 2004. Nassau
  • 2003. "The Scotsman Gives Lily Her Name (1904)" (poem), in Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters Vol 2. Web version here
  • 2003. "Junkanoo in the Bahamas: a tale of identity" (essay), in Junkanoo and Christianity, Nassau: Media.
  • 2003. "Junkanoo, Territory and Identity: The locality of competition" (essay), in Junkanoo and Christianity, Nassau: Media.
  • 2002. "Generation Property: A Consideration of Customary Land Tenure in the Bahamas" (essay), in COB Research Journal Vol. XI. Nassau
  • 2002. "Navigations: Insularity versus Cosmopolitanism in the Bahamas: Formality and Informality in an Archipelagic Nation" (essay), in Social Identities, Vol. 8 No. 2, June 2002
  • 2002. "Introductory notes on ring games and round dances", in Deep River of Song: Bahamas: Ring Games and Round Dances. The Lomax Collection, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
  • 2002. "The Seamstress Teaches Lily How to Sew" (poem), in The Caribbean Writer Vol 16. USVI
  • 2001. "Paradise Lost: A Close Reading of Ian Strachan's 'National Anthem'" (essay), in At Random 2001. Nassau
  • 2000. "Navigations: National Identity and the Archipelago" (essay), in Yinna: Journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies (BACUS), Vol I. Nassau
  • 1998/9. "Navigations: National Identity and the Archipelago" (short version of essay), in Womanspeak 4. Nassau
  • 1996. Scene from "My Father's House" (play), in Womanspeak 3. Nassau
  • 1995. Excerpt from "Eating the Raccoon" (short story), in Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, Spring issue
  • 1994. "Eating the Raccoon" (short story), in Massachusetts Review Volume 35, Issues 3 & 4, Autumn/Winter 1994
  • 1994. Excerpt from "Eating the Raccoon" (short story), in Womanspeak 2. Nassau.
  • 1993. "Eating the Raccoon" (short story), in Oxford and Cambridge May Anthologies (ed) Michael Dibdin, Oxford and Cambridge
  • 1993. Scene from Powercut (play), in From the Shallow Seas, (ed) Ileana Sanz Cabrera. Havana: Casa de las Americas
  • 1992. "Aunt Selma's Dilemma" (poem), in Lignum Vitae. Nassau.
  • 1992. "My Grandmother's House" (poem), in Womanspeak 1, Nassau.
  • 1991. Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas. London: Macmillan Caribbean. Editing, updating and expansion of E. Clement Bethel's MA thesis in Ethnomusicology
  • 1987. "Bay Street, Nassau, 1984", "Aunt Selma's Dilemma", "The Prostitutes" (poems), in Junction: an Anthology of Bahamian Poetry and Prose, (ed) Eunice Bethel Humblestone. London: Macmillan Caribbean & Bahamas Poetry Society
  • 1986. "Afterwards" (short story) in Thursday Next: More Stories from the Thursday Group (ed) D. J. Knight. Toronto: Childe Thursday Press

Unpublished Works

  • Research
    • 2000. "Navigations: the fluidity of national identity in the postcolonial Bahamas", PhD Dissertation, Cambridge
    • 1999. "Roots or Routes? Migrations of Identity in The Bahamas", keynote address at the Second Annual BACUS Conference, Nassau, June 1999
    • 1998. "Navigations: Insularity versus Cosmopolitanism in the Bahamas: Formality and Informality in an Archipelagic Nation", paper presented to the Islands and Islanders conference, St Andrew's, Scotland, June 1998
    • 1998. "Navigations: National Identity and the Archipelago", paper presented to the First Annual BACUS Conference, Nassau, June 1998
    • 1993. "Bahamian Kinship and the Power of Women", M.Phil Thesis in Social Anthropology, Cambridge, March-July 1993
    • 1986. "The Bad Behaviour of Language: The Problem of Communication in the Eighteenth Century", winner of Trinity College Senior Essay Award, June 1986
    • 1985. "L'Éventail: A Study of the Fan Symbol in Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la Rosée", paper presented at CALCAS South/South Conference, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, May 1985
  • Plays
    • 2003. The Children's Teeth, play
    • 1992. New Moon and Sabbath, musical book & libretto
    • 1990. Powercut, play

Other Activities

  • Theatre
  • Screenwriting
    • 2001. Powercut. With Manny Knowles. Plantation Pictures, Nassau.
  • Directing and Producing
    • 2001. Director, Macbeth, for Ringplay Productions at the College of The Bahamas
    • 1998 - 2000. Assistant Director, One World, Pearson College
    • 1997. Producer, One World, Pearson College
    • 1996. Director, The Crucible, Pearson College
    • 1996. Director, The Good Doctor, Pearson College
  • Playwriting and Dramaturgy
    • 2001. Macbeth, updating of script adapted by Rosanna Seaborn for a Bahamian audience, Ringplay Productions
    • 1994. Four Billion Circles, a production based on poems by Bahamian writers. With David Jonathan Burrows, Sammie Bethell, and Charles Huggins
    • 1991. Music of The Bahamas, docu-musical, first presented at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 1991; revised for Bahamas Quincentennial Commission/Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season, February 1992. With Philip A. Burrows
    • 1990. Powercut, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season. Original play
    • 1989. Tales of the Chickcharney, Dundas Summer Workshop. Original children's play
    • 1989. Dis We Tings, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season. With Kayla Lockhart Edwards and Derek Burrows
  • Activities at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific
    • 1997-2000. Assistant Webmaster, Pearson College Web Page
      • 1996-2000. Webmaster, Social Anthropology Page
    • 1995-2000. Student Activities at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific
      • Creative Writing Activity; Cinematography Activity; Publications Activity; Drama Workshop; Pearson Connections ; Keep-In-Touch Newsletter; Special Needs Recreation Activity; Wilderness Activity
  • Theatre Technician
    • 1998. The Rimers of Eldritch, Pearson College - operated lights
    • 1995. The Runner Stumbles, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season - operated lights
    • 1994. Four Billion Circles, Dundas Repertory Summer Season - designed and operated lights
    • 1992. Fatal Passage, Dundas Repertory Summer Season - operated lights
    • 1991. Olemi's Passage, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season - operated lights
    • 1991. Blues for Mr Charlie, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season - operated sound
    • 1990. Driving Miss Daisy, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season - operated lights
  • Smithsonian Festival of the Americas
    • 1994. Presenter, Junkanoo contingent for Bahamian exhibit
    • 1993-1994. Researcher in Junkanoo
  • Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts
    • 1995. Publications Manager, Management Committee
    • Actress
      • 1991. Sister One, You Can Lead a Horse to Water, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Reprise of 1989 role.
      • 1990. Tanya, Powercut, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season
      • 1988. Laurie, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season
      • 1987. Patsy, The Rimers of Eldritch, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season
  • Stage managing, crew/set building
    • 1993. Kit/Dr Faustus, Leckhampton Players, Cambridge - stage manager
    • 1989. I Nehemiah Remember When, Freeport - set
    • 1988. Buried Child, Dundas Repertory Summer Season - crew & set
    • 1988. Everything in the Garden, Dundas Repertory Winter/Spring Season - crew
    • 1986. Le Malade Imaginaire, St Michael's French Theatre, Toronto - stage manager
    • 1985. Les Precieuses Ridicules, St Michael's French Theatre, Toronto - stage manager
 

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