Barbara Lalla is Professor Emerita of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and for many years has taught and published on Caribbean language history, literary discourse, and the re-rereading of other canons. She is author of Postcolonialisms: Caribbean Rereading of Medieval English Discourse (2008); coauthor, with Jean D’Costa and Velma Pollard, of Caribbean Literary Discourse: Voice and Cultural Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean (2014); and coeditor, with Nicole Roberts, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, and Valerie Youssef, of Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture (2013). She is also author of the novels Arch of Fire (1998), Cascade (2010), Uncle Brother (2014), Grounds for Tenure (2017), and One Thousand Eyes (2021).