We are delighted to welcome Dr Malica Willie our January JMS Network Event hosted by JMS Scholar, Steveen Ulysse!

Educated at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, and the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium, Dr Willie is a Saint Lucian creative writer and researcher, who is Lecturer in Black British and African Diasporic Literature in the School of Critical Studies at Glasgow.

Her creative work consistently depicts Caribbean cultures, and engages with issues of race, sexuality, disability, abuse, female empowerment, nature and so much more. Her most recent creative works are ‘Blue Shoes,’ a short story published earlier this year in Small Axe, and ‘Matrilineal Inheritance,’ a non-fiction piece in volume 39 of The Caribbean Writer, due to come out in 2025.

Dr Willie’s research interests are thematically linked to her creative work. Her focus is interdisciplinary, and intersects race, slavery, philosophy, disability studies, psychoanalysis and African diasporic Literature.