Current Issue

IACLALS (Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India) announces a call for papers for their annual conference in 2026 on the theme of "Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations." The conference will be co-hosted from 12–14 February 2026 by the Department of English, Bangalore University, Jnanabharathi Campus, Bengaluru-560056. Please see IACLALS Annual Conference, 2026 for more... Read more

EACLALS (the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Triennial conference will be held in Turin on 25-29 May 2026 on the topic “Multiple Crises: Conflicts, Crossings, Migrations in Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies”. All conference details can be found on the conference website: https://corep.it/eaclals-conference-2026. All proposals must be submitted by sending an email to the organizers at eaclals2026@unito.it and carmen.concilio@unito.it. The extended... Read more

In 2026, Postcolonial Text will release a special double issue on the work of Pamela Mordecai. See call for papers here. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15,... Read more

JWIL is the proud recipient of the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters. We extend our deep thanks to the Bocas Lit Fest team for honoring our work in this way. This is indeed wind at our backs as we herald the 40th year of the JWIL project, fruit of multiple generations of labor and commitment. Below you will find the very generous commendation from the Bocas team. Please support Bocas in turn as they continue to nurture and sustain Caribbean... Read more

We inaugurate this new JWIL blog with Michael R. Soriano reflecting upon the launch of the exciting new digital publishing initiative Machineel + Seagrape, an open-access journal founded by Kelly Baker Josephs and dedicated to the publication of Caribbean plays. As we approach the fortieth anniversary of the JWIL project, which was founded in 1986, we are looking backwards with an impulse to preserve the record of work that has gone before to build the field of Caribbean literary studies, as... Read more

The University of Miami, Coral Gables, Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies invites submissions of abstracts for the 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference to be held October 8-11, 2025. Today, Caribbean societies and, by extension, Caribbean writers, reckon with crises that feel both new and cyclical. Increased volcanic activities, record-breaking hurricanes, droughts and heatwaves are only some of the environmental pressures we face. States... Read more

We honor the Jamaican scholar and writer Velma Pollard's life and her invaluable contributions to Caribbean literary culture and education. She was retired from the University of the West Indies, Mona where she was Dean of the Faculty of Education. Over her decades of teaching in Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, and the US, she trained many students, including J. Michael Dash and Victor Chang, who would go on to have their own lasting impact on Caribbean letters. Her scholarship explored the richness... Read more

The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) invites applications for their week-long residential digital humanities institute, to be held at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, in June 2025. The CDSC supports the growth and development of digital humanities scholarship, training, and infrastructure for the Caribbean and its diasporas. The Caribbean Digital Scholarship summer institute (CDSsi) trains scholars, at all levels, working at the intersections of Caribbean Studies... Read more