Dr Malica Willie
- Lecturer in Black British and Diasporic Literature (English Literature)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854Biography
Educated at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, and the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium, Dr Willie is a Saint Lucian teacher, creative writer and researcher, who joined the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Black British and/or African Diasporic Studies in January 2024.
As a teacher, Dr Willie emphasises the need to show understanding and empathy to all and attempts as much as possible to make her classroom, a safe and inclusive space. She has taught courses in African Diasporic Literature, Caribbean Cultures, Postcolonial History, and Literary Theory at UWI, UCLan and Newcastle University, and is very passionate about facilitating courses that explore slavery and colonialism. As a creative writer, Dr Willie explores, through fiction, essays and poetry, Caribbean culture, and issues about which so many of us would prefer to remain silent.
Due to her interests in Race, Slavery, Disability and African Diasporic matters, Dr Willie’s research is interdisciplinary. She has held research positions at ULiège’s Centre for Teaching and Postcolonial Research (2015 - 2016) in Belgium, Linnaeus University’s Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Sweden (2016 & 2019), and the University of Central Lancashire’s Institute for Black Atlantic Research in Preston (2018).
Research interests
Dr Willie’s interdisciplinary doctoral research on the degree to which the Saint Lucian author, Garth St. Omer, adapts existentialist philosophy to explore colonialism, slavery and exile in the Caribbean, was instrumental in revitalising the author’s work, and resituating him in the Black Atlantic canon.
Dr Willie’s current research aims at intersecting Disability and Slavery Studies, along with Caribbean, Irish and English Literature, to explore the degree to which colonialism has influenced depictions of blindness in 20th and 21st Century Caribbean writing.
Research Interests:
- Postcolonial History
- Postcolonial Theory
- Slave Studies
- 20th & 21st Century African Diasporic Writing
- Disability Studies
- Race Studies
- Caribbean Cultures
- Queer Theory
- Black Women Studies
- Psychoanalysis
- Existentialism
- Creative Writing
Research groups
- Postcolonial/Critical Race Theory
- Practice Research (Creative Writing)
Publications
2024
Willie, Malica S. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2024)
Blue shoes.
sx salon, 45,
Feb 2024.
2023
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2023)
A genealogy of the recognition of blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives.
In: Munos, Delphine, O’Callaghan, Evelyn and Mergeai, Mathilde (eds.)
Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies.
Series: Cross/culutres (220).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 84-100.
ISBN 9789004545540
(doi: 10.1163/9789004545557_006)
2021
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2021)
Journey to Zion.
Lolwe, 4,
Dec 2021.
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2021)
Musing history.
Caribbean Writer, 35,
2021.
Articles
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2024)
Blue shoes.
sx salon, 45,
Feb 2024.
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2021)
Journey to Zion.
Lolwe, 4,
Dec 2021.
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2021)
Musing history.
Caribbean Writer, 35,
2021.
Book Sections
Willie, Malica S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-9854
(2023)
A genealogy of the recognition of blackness in Caryl Phillips’s Cambridge and Foreigners: Three English Lives.
In: Munos, Delphine, O’Callaghan, Evelyn and Mergeai, Mathilde (eds.)
Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies.
Series: Cross/culutres (220).
Brill: Leiden, pp. 84-100.
ISBN 9789004545540
(doi: 10.1163/9789004545557_006)
Prior publications
Book Section
Malica S. Willie (2026) Carrying Shame Who We Be! Global Black Women's Creative Anthology" Malica S. Willie.
Malica S. Willie (2025) Matrilineal Heritage The Caribbean Writer: Possibilities - Beyond Traditions, Inside of Courage Malica S. Willie.
Malica S. Willie (2023) A Genealogy of the Recognition of Blackness in Caryl Phillips' Foreigners: Three English Lives and Cambridge Caryl Phillips's Genealogies Malica S. Willie.
(2018) The Essence of a Peripheral Existence: The Philosophy of Psychic Exile in The Lights on the Hill The Fiction of Garth St. Omer: A Casebook Malica S. Willie.
Book
Malica S. Willie (2026) Colonialism, Exile and the Caribbean Psyche: The Novels of Garth St. Omer Liverpool University Press Malica S. Willie.
() Garth St. Omer, a Caribbean Existentialist Malica S. Willie.
Article
(2021) Saint Lucia and the Differently-abled: Will Norbert bring Hope or Change? Loop Saint Lucia News Malica S. Willie.
(2017) The Existential Symptoms of Exile in Garth St. Omer’s Prisnms Journal of English Language and Literature Malica S. Willie.
(2017) The Legacy of Colonialism: Existential Crisis in Garth St. Omer’s Another Place, Another Time ANGLICA: International Journal of English Studies Malica S. Willie.
() The Psychology of the Exiled Malica S. Willie.
Other
Malica S. Willie (2021) Ancestral Codicil University of the US Virgin Island Malica S. Willie.
(2019) Disability and Slavery: Caribbean Vision Linnaeus University Malica S. Willie.
(2019) The Influence of Western Culture on Caribbean Representations of Blindmess Linnaeus University Malica S. Willie.
(2019) Garth St. Omer The Literary Encyclopedia Malica S. Willie.
Malica S. Willie (2019) Bèl ti djal UWI Press Malica S. Willie.
Malica S. Willie (2019) Yes I'll go with you University of the US Virgin Islands Malica S. Willie.
(2018) The Caribbean Existentialist: an examination of Garth St. Omer's Fiction University of Central Lancashire Malica S. Willie.
Malica S. Willie (2017) Facticity Malica S. Willie.
(2016) The Colonial Exile's Existential Dilemma University of Liège Malica S. Willie.
(2015) Existentialism in Garth St. Omer's Narratives University of the West Indies Postgraduate Seminar Series Malica S. Willie.
(2014) Beings in Exile and Beings for Exile: An Argument for why this research should be a PhD University of the West Indies Malica S. Willie.
Website
(2020) Syrop Caribbean Literary Heritage Malica S. Willie.
(2020) A Dear Prof Letter Journal of West Indian Literature Malica S. Willie.
Book Review
(2019) The Testimony of Bones SX Salon 31 Malica S. Willie.
(2016) Garth St. Omer's Prisnms Le magazine culturel en ligne de l'Université de Liège/ Mixed Zones International Chronicle Malica S. Willie.
Conference Proceedings
(2018) The Violent Destruction of Self in Garth St. Omer's Prisnms Violence in the Postcolonial and Neocolonial World Malica S. Willie.
(2013) Multiple Modalities in the Saint Lucian Experience West Indian Lit Conference: Multiple Textualities: Imagining the Caribbean Nation Malica S. Willie.
(2013) The Essence of a Peripheral Existence ACLALS: The current unbroken/the circuits kept open/Connecting Cultures and the Commonwealth Malica S. Willie.
Thesis
working-paper
() Afro-Crip Futurities in Star Trek: The Next Generation Malica S. Willie.
() Biblical Stereotypes of Blindness in Kei Miller's Augustown (2016) Malica S. Willie.
() Blindness, Colonialism and the Imagination in Wilson Harris's Palace of the Peacock and The Waiting Room Malica S. Willie.
Grants
- (2019), Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Research Fellowship, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- (2018), Postgraduate Research Award, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
- (2016), Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Research Fellowship, Linnaeus University, Sweden
- (2015 – 2016), Erasmus Mundus DREAM Mobility Fellowship, Centre for Teaching and Postcolonial Research, University of Liège, Belgium
- (2013) Postgraduate Research Award, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
- (2012 – 2015), Rex Nettleford Postgraduate Research Fund, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados
Supervision
Inquiries are welcome from students interested in any aspect of African Diasporic/Black Studies, particularly the intersectionality of Disability Studies and African Diasporic writing.
