Rita Christian

Qualifications

B.A (Hons) French & English (Middlesex Polytechnic - now Middlesex University)
MPhil in French (Kings College, University of London)
Certificate of Education (Middlesex University)
Certificate in Counselling (Birkbeck College Centre for Extra Mural Studies)

Role

Senior Lecturer, Department of Humanities Arts & Languages Personal Academic Adviser

Rita’s teaching areas and areas of expertise are The Literature of the Caribbean Francophone, Hispanic, Anglophone and Dutch. She also lectures in Studies of Women in the Caribbean and Popular Culture in the Caribbean.

Her research interests include French Caribbean Literature; Popular Culture, Orature and Orality in Caribbean Literature; Women in the Caribbean, including Indo-Caribbean Women and the writing of Caribbean Women.

Over the years Rita has participated in Erasmus programmes. This entails the exchange of classrooms with colleagues at universities in other countries. Through this scheme she has lectured at the University of Aix en Provence, France and the Université Saint Denis, Ile de la Réunion. She has participated in teaching at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France and the Université Antilles-Guyane, Martinique. She occasionally teaches at the Université d’été at the Université Antilles-Guyane, Martinique.

Rita is a member of the Society for Caribbean Studies where she was on the Executive Committee for one year. She is also a member of the Caribbean Studies Association (an American organisation), and the Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literatures in French.