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Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr (born 20 February 1942)〔("UWI Conference in honour of Rohlehr" ), ''Trinidad and Tobago Newsday'', 22 September 2007.〕 is a Guyana-born scholar and critic of West Indian literature, who is noted for his study of popular culture in the Caribbean, including oral poetry, calypso and cricket.〔Anu Lakhan, ("Crossing over" ), ''The Caribbean Review of Books'', No. 16, May 2008.〕 He pioneered the academic and intellectual study of Calypso,〔("Feature Speakers: Gordon Rohlehr" ), Interlocking Basins of a Globe: Honouring Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.〕 tracing its history over several centuries, writing a landmark work entitled ''Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad'' (1989), and is considered the world's leading authority on its development.〔("Professor Gordon Rohlehr" ), The Integrationist.〕
==Biography==
Born in Guyana in 1942, Rohlehr was educated at Queen's College, Guyana, and at the University College of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, graduating in 1964 with a first-class Honours degree in English Literature.〔〔 (Gordon Rohlehr biography ) at Arts & Humanities Research Council. University of Leeds.〕 He then wrote a doctoral dissertation entitled "Alienation and Commitment in the Works of Joseph Conrad" at Birmingham University (1964-67),〔 before taking up an English Literature appointment in Trinidad at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine.
Spending 40 years at UWI, St Augustine – he began as Assistant Lecturer in 1968 and achieved a personal Chair by 1985〔Barbara Lalla, ("Profile – Gordon Rohlehr" ), ''Tout Moun'', Vol. 2, No. 1, October 2013, p. 7.〕 – he established an international reputation for his ground-breaking work on Caribbean literature, calypso and culture, building an extensive opus that comprises books, hundreds of essays, interviews, lectures and broadcasts.〔〔〔("Key Figures in Creole Studies - Gordon Rohlehr" ), Department of Sociology, Warwick University.〕 He co-edited, with Stewart Brown and Mervyn Morris, ''Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean'' (Harlow: Longman Caribbean, 1989).
Rohlehr has also been Visiting Professor to Harvard University (September-December 1981); the Johns Hopkins University (September-December 1985); Tulane University (January-May 1997); Stephen F. Austin State University (January-May 2000); Miami University Writers’ Workshop (June-July 1995); York University, Toronto (January-February 1996) and Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (June-August 2004).〔
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