Kenneth Ramchand

Professor Kenneth Ramchand was awarded a Trinidad and Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold (1996) for his work in Literature, Education and Culture, and is widely respected as the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction, having written extensively on many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon. His seminal text, The West Indian Novel and Its Background (1970), had a transformational effect on the internationalization of West Indian literature as an academic discipline. Ramchand is Professor Emeritus of English at the St. Augustine campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI). Until he resigned in June 2009, he was Associate Provost at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He was for some years an independent Senator in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. Ramchand is also an Emeritus Professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.