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Selwyn Cudjoe (Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe) was born on 1 December, 1943 in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago, is a Selwyn Cudjoe is Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist. Discover Selwyn Cudjoe's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Occupation Professor, historian, scholar
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1943
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago
Nationality Caribbean

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1833

His parents were Lionel R. and Carmen Rose Cudjoe; his great-grandfather, Jonathon Cudjoe, was born in Tacarigua in 1833, the last year of formal slavery, and his great-grandmother, Amelia, was born in the same village in 1837.

1943

Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 December 1943) is a Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.

He was also the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley.

Cudjoe's particular expertise is Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history, and he teaches courses on the African-American literary tradition, African literature, black women writers, and Caribbean literature.

Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe was born in Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago, like several generations of his family, growing up on a sugar estate on which ancestors of his had worked.

1964

Cudjoe attended Tacarigua EC School, before migrating to the US in 1964, at the age of 21.

1969

He continued his studies at Fordham University, where he received a B.A. in English (1969) and an M.A. in American Literature (1972), attended Columbia University (1971–72), and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in American Literature from Cornell University (1976).

1986

He has taught at Ithaca College and at Cornell, Harvard, Brandeis, Fordham, and Ohio universities, before joining the Wellesley College faculty in 1986.

Cudjoe has also been a lecturer at Auburn State Prison and taught at Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-In-Action.

He has served as a director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and as the president of the National Association for the Empowerment of African People (Trinidad and Tobago).

1988

Cudjoe has edited a number of titles including Caribbean Women Writers, an anthology of essays collected from the first international conference on Caribbean women writers, which he organised at Wellesley College in 1988, and, most recently, Narratives of Amerindians in Trinidad and Tobago; or, Becoming Trinbagonian (2016), "a fascinating compendium of key documents on the narration of the Amerindian presence in Trinidad".

Cudjoe writes a weekly column in the TnT Mirror, and his work has appeared in many other publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Amsterdam News, Trinidad and Tobago Review, Callaloo, New Left Review, Harvard Educational Review, Essence, Trinidad Guardian and Trinidad Express.

1994

He has also written several documentaries, including Tacarigua: A Village in Trinidad and Caribbean Women Writers (1994), and hosted programmes for Trinidad and Tobago Television.

2011

Among the many books Cudjoe has written are Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation (2011), The Role of Resistance in Caribbean Literature (2010), and Beyond Boundaries: The Intellectual Tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century (2002).

2018

His 2018 book, The Slavemaster of Trinidad: William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, is described by Henry Louis Gates, Jr as a "beautifully written and meticulously researched account of Burnley's life" that "unfolds the story of a planter who was born in America, educated in England, and made his fortune in the Caribbean. Measured in tone, this book not only exposes Burnley's public and private racism, but also places his life in context of the greater historical currents of the first half of the 19th century Atlantic world. Cudjoe has written a volume essential to a full understanding of the history of Trinidad."

According to Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley, "Cudjoe's new book should be used as a teaching tool in all schools across the country."

2019

The Slavemaster of Trinidad was announced on the 2019 longlist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.