Merle Collins is the Director of LASC. She is a professor in the Department of English and a 2018 UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. An excerpt from her 1987 novel Angel was published in Her True True Name. Also a creative writer, Collins is the author of novels, collections of poetry, short story collections, and several critical essays on Caribbean literature and Grenadian culture and politics. Recent essays include “Louise Langdon Norton Little. Grenadian Mother of Malcolm X. Caribbean Quarterly, 2020 and “Explorations of the Self.” Rafael Dalleo & Curdella Forbes, ed., Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970. Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
For contact information please email Dr. Merle Collins at [email protected]
Assistant Director Eric Tomalá joined LASC in January 2017. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Business and a Master of Arts in Sociology. Eric’s academic interest is the political economy of food production.