Lalla, Barbara

Barbara Lalla is Professor, Language and Literature, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She is the author or co-editor of many books and articles, including English for Academic Purposes: A Distance Course for Caribbean Students; Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival; the novel Arch of Fire; and, with Jean D'Costa, Language in Exile: Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole and Voices in Exile: Jamaican Texts of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.