ABOUT LAURIE

Laurie R. Lambert is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University in New York City. She is the author of Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution (2020, University of Virginia Press) which examines the gendered implications of political trauma in literature on Grenada. The book analyzes how Caribbean women writers use authorship as a means of expressing cultural sovereignty and critiquing the inadequacy of hierarchical, patriarchal, and linear histories of a black radical tradition as they narrate the Grenada Revolution. In so doing, Lambert reads Caribbean literature as a primary site for the excavation of gendered readings of revolution, identifying the marginalized voices of women and girls at multiple unexpected sites of political formation.

She is also the director of Tambu (2026), a short documentary on Jamaican folk culture. Lambert holds a B.F.A. in Film Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University as well as a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. She is the daughter of Grenadians and grew up between Toronto and Grenada.