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“If the first and last thing you see every day is Mount Kilimanjaro, you know you are specially favoured even if you don’t know why! Growing up in Tanzania made me what I am – an immensely privileged person who has spent a lifetime trying to understand and contextualize that privilege. After I left Nigeria with my PhD, I wanted to experience living in the African diaspora. I had been exposed to the Caribbean through literature and participation in cultural and political activities in London. I felt that there was a continuity with my African experience in coming to UWI. I would like to contribute to a body of knowledge and fiction from an African perspective that sees Africa as part of the modern world. I would also like to be an academic who can write about complicated things in an accessible way.”

Dr. Jane Bryce

SENIOR LECTURER
DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION
CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS
Tel: (246) 417-4413 • Email: jane.bryce@cavehill.uwi.edu

PROFILE

Dr. Jane Bryce is many things: a Commonwealth Scholar, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 1983-1988; a Leverhulme Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1990-1991; a Commonwealth Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1996-1997; a member, Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Committee of the Central Bank of Barbados, 1998-present; a judge for the Guyana Prize for creative writing, 1998; curator, Anglophone section of the Third Annual CineFest Nuestra America, ‘Many Voices: Films of the Caribbean’, at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, 8-11 November 2001; co-Director, Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film, 2002-2004; co-editor of annual, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, 1999-present; co-chair, Cave Hill Film Society: 1999-2004; co-ordinator, Literatures in English, 1999-2003; and Head, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, UWI Cave Hill, 2007-present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr. Bryce explores the links between film and written text through narratology and indigenous semiotic systems such as orature; film and literature as instruments of self-construction in ex-colonies from Australia to Zimbabwe, including the Caribbean; and links between contemporary fiction, film and popular culture in Africa and the Caribbean. Her latest research focuses on memoir and life-writing in Africa by black and white writers, and in particular the relationship between her own experience as a colonial child in Tanzania, memories of the pre-and post-Independence era as revealed in interviews with Tanzanians undertaken while on sabbatical in 2006-2007, and the story of a particular place over time.