Carolyn Cooper is a West Indian author, professor, and literary scholar. Carolyn Cooper's academic approach is grounded in critical theory.
Born in Jamaica, Dr. Cooper currently heads the department of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica. For the past 26 years she has lectured at the University of the West Indies, Department of Literature in English.
In 1968 she was awarded the Jamaica Scholarship which three years later culminated with a Bachelors of Arts Degree in English (B.A. English). In 1972 she proceeded to the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada to pursue her Masters Degree in English, which was followed by the completion of her Ph. D at the same institution.
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“Teenagers are like people who express a burning desire to be different by dressing exactly alike.”
—Anonymous. The Last Word, ed. Carolyn Warner, ch. 3 (1992)
“Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)