Honorary Fellows
Research Interests
Karina Williamson has research interests in three areas: English literature, especially poetry, of the long eighteenth century (1660-1830), twentieth-century Caribbean writing, and British West Indian literature and history of the colonial period. She is principal editor of The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart (6 vols., 1980-96), and co-editor with Marcus Walsh of the Penguin Classics Christopher Smart (1990). She has recently edited the anonymous novel, Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica [1828] for Macmillan Caribbean Classics (2005). Other publications include essays on the impact of Smart on modern American and English poets, eighteenth-century women poets, science and poetry in the eighteenth century, Augustan verse epistles and gender cross-dressing, the Jamaican writer Roger Mais, and Jean Rhys and Phyllis Shand Allfrey.
Research activity
She is currently compiling an anthology of representations of West Indian slavery in prose and verse, 1657-1834.
This article was published on Mar 18, 2011