Conrad James

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Caribbean Studies

Conrad James is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and former Director of the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Toronto. His principal research focus is the cultural production of the Spanish Caribbean. In addition to various articles on Cuban and Dominican poetry, he is author of Filial Crisis and Erotic Politics in Black Cuban Literature (Tamesis, 2019). He has also published Writing the Afro-Hispanic: Essays on Africa and Africans in the Spanish Caribbean (Adonis and Abbey, 2012) and The Cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean (University Press of Florida, 2000). His currently working on a monograph on Twentieth Century Black Cuban Theatre.