Evelyn O'Callaghan (born 20 September 1954) is a Jamaican academic who is a professor of
West Indian literature at the
University of the West Indies. She was the first Jamaican woman to win a
Rhodes Scholarship.
Biography
O'Callaghan was born in Nigeria to parents of Irish descent.
["Professor Evelyn O'Callaghan For Edward Baugh Lecture"]
'' Jamaica Gleaner'', 10 October 2014. She moved to Jamaica as a small child, and attended
Mount Alvernia High School in
Montego Bay
Montego Bay () is the capital of the Parishes of Jamaica, parish of Saint James Parish, Jamaica, St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth most populous urban area in the country, after Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, and Portmore ...
.
Mt. Alvernia & Beyond
Mt. Alvernia High School Alumni Association. Retrieved 22 November 2017. O'Callaghan completed her undergraduate education at Ireland's University College Cork
University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) () is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, and located in Cork (city), Cork.
The university was founded in 1845 as one of three Queen's Universit ...
, which her father had attended. She was Jamaica's Rhodes Scholar for 1978, the first woman to be selected for the honour, and subsequently completed a Master of Letters degree at Wolfson College, Oxford. She later completed a doctorate at the University of the West Indies (UWI), with her thesis being supervised by Edward Baugh.[ O'Callaghan initially worked as a junior lecturer in English literature at the UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica. She transferred to the Cave Hill, Barbados, campus in 1983, and was eventually awarded a full professorship. O'Callaghan is the current dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, and has previously served as head of the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature. She is an editor of the ''Journal of West Indian Literature'', and has written several books about early West Indian women writers.][Prof. Evelyn O'Callaghan]
Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
References
External links
Interview with Professor O'Callaghan, February 2016 (YouTube)''Woman Version''
book by Professor O'Callaghan, available fully and freely in th
Digital Library of the Caribbean
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1954 births
Living people
Jamaican people of Irish descent
Jamaican historians
Jamaican women historians
Historians of the Caribbean
Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Academic staff of the University of the West Indies
University of the West Indies alumni
Alumni of University College Cork
Jamaican Rhodes Scholars
Women biographers
Academic journal editors