John Gilmore was educated in Barbados and in England, where he was a student at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA 1977; MA 1981; PhD 1985). He lived and worked in Barbados for fourteen years, where he taught at the University of the West Indies (1982-86) and later worked as Cultural Officer for Literary Arts at the National Cultural Foundation (1986-90), in a local advertising agency, and as Managing Editor of the regional newspaper Carribean Week. Since 1996 he has been a lecturer in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at Warwick. His interests include Caribbean history and literature, British literature of the eighteenth century (in English and Latin), and Translation Studies.

Current projects include a literary biography (funded in part by a British Academy grant) of the earliest Black writer of the British Empire, the eighteenth-century Jamaican poet Francis Williams. He has been commissioned to edit (with David Dabydeen) the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Black British History.

He teaches on the following MA courses at the Centre:

Literary Translation and Creative (Re)Writing in a Global Context

History of Translation

Literature, Politics and Society in Britain

Literature and Empire

Recent Publications

Freedom and Change (Harlow: Longman Caribbean, 2004)

Empires and Conquests (Harlow: Longman Caribbean, 2003)

A-Z of Barbados Heritage (Oxford: Macmillan Education, 2003)

Buried With Science and other stories (Chichester: Dido Press, 2003), a collection of short fiction

J.W. Orderson's Creoleana (Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2002), an edition of the earliest known novel by a Barbadian writer

The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane (London: Athlone Press, 2000)

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Email: J.T.Gilmore@warwick.ac.uk