CONFERENCES:
2011 Annual Conference Popular Culture in the Caribbean and the Caribbean in Popular Culture
2010 Annual Conference Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands
2009 Annual Conference Art and the Artist in Society
2008 Annual Conference Writing Race
2007 Spring Conference Of Mice and Men: Animals in Human Perception
2006 Fall Conference Our Watery World: Humans and the Sea
2006 Spring Conference Secrets and Lies
2005 Fall Conference Narrating the Past: (Re)Constructing Memory, (Re)Negotiating History
2005 Spring Conference Transgression and Taboo
2004 Fall Conference East and West/Orientalism and Occidentalism
2004 Spring Conference Critical Theory and the Classroom
2003 Fall Conference Representation of Mourning and Loss
2003 Spring Conference Travel Narratives
PUBLICATIONS:
The following are the different collections of critical essays that have been published based on the topics of the conferences. The collections include some of the essays presented in the conference and other essays submitted later for the publication.
This Watery World: Humans and the Sea
Editors: Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra
Mayagüez: CEA-CC Publications, 2007.
A revised edition was also published by Cambridge Scholars in 2008.
Narrating the Past: (Re)Constructing Memory
and (Re)Negotiating the Past
Editors: Nandita Batra and Vartan P. Messier
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2007.
Transgression and Taboo: Critical Essays
Editors: Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra
Mayagüez: CEA-CC Publications, 2005.
