My name is Amanda T. Perry. I’m a writer, scholar, and educator based in Montréal, Québec, where I currently teach at Champlain College-Saint Lambert and Concordia University.
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As a literary critic and journalist, I often write about the cultural industry, gender, and Canadian regionalism, especially in relation to Alberta and Québec. I also have a longstanding dedication to the Caribbean: I completed a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, where I focused on Caribbean literature in English, French and Spanish. My academic book project, Cuba in the Caribbean Imaginary: Race, Censorship, and Regionalism reframes the Cuban Revolution as a Caribbean event.
Whether it be scholarship, journalism, translation, or course design, my work has multilingualism at its core. This website is only in English, but I’m available in good French and Spanish, and passable Portuguese and Haitian Creole. The T is for Thérèse.
Since 2021, I have been a contributing editor with Literary Review of Canada, helping them expand their coverage of Québec. I have also written for The Walrus, The Globe and Mail. and Puritan Magazine. My translations have appeared in Barricade and The Mercurian.
Public Writing
Scholarship
Find my scholarship in Small Axe, The Global South, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and numerous edited volumes. My current project focuses on the Cuban Revolution’s resonance in the Anglophone Caribbean and Haiti, while I have also written on material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Teaching
By day, I am an English professor at Champlain College-Saint Lambert, part of Québec’s unique Cégep system. I also teach Caribbean literature at Concordia University. I’ve taught classes at New York University and Dawson College, given guest lectures at Yale, UQAM, and McGill, and designed graduate student writing workshops.