Lizabeth Paravisini – Gebert
Office: Chicago Hall 144
Ext: 5611
Email: liparavisini@vassar.edu
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert is a Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College, where she is a participating faculty member in the Programs in Africana Studies and Latin American Studies. She is the author of Phyllis Shand Allfrey: A Caribbean Life (1996), Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion (1999), Creole Religions of the Caribbean (2003), and the forthcoming José Martí: A Revolutionary Life. She is the co-editor of, among others, Healing Cultures: Art and Religion as Curative Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora (2000), Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean (1998), and Women at Sea: Travel Writing and the Margins of Caribbean Discourse (2000). Her critical editions of texts by Caribbean women writers include It Falls Into Place: The Short Stories of Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Papillote Press, 2001). Her articles have appeared in Callaloo, Research in African Literatures, the Journal of West Indian Literature, the Jean Rhys Review, the Journal of Caribbean Literature, Obsidian, and the Revista Mexicana del Caribe, among others. She is presently at work on a book on the devastating 1902 eruption of the Mont Pelée volcano in Martinique, Glimpses of Hell: The 1902 Eruption of Mont Pelée in the Cultural History of the Caribbean.