Helen Pyne-Timothy (1937 – 2015)"PYNE- TIMOTHY - Helen Dorothea..."
'' Kingston Gleaner'', 10 July 2015, p. 35. was a Jamaican feminist literary critic and academic, who was a founder and the inaugural president of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), a contributing editor of the journal '' MaComère'', and the author of the 1998 book ''The Woman, the Writer and Caribbean Society''.

Biography

Born in Glengoffe, Jamaica, she was educated at Wolmer's Girls' School in

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and at the

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in Canada and after graduating from university, moved to

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where she initially taught at Mausica Teachers College. Going on to be a senior lecturer in Literature and Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts and General Studies at the

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(UWI) at St. Augustine, she eventually became Acting Dean there. After retiring from UWI, she held Visiting Professor/Fellow roles at several US universities, including at the Bunting Institute at

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, the

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and the

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and

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. According to Opal Palmer Adisa, Pyne-Timothy "saw the need for women to come together to celebrate the works of Caribbean writers and scholars" and in 1995 was a founding member of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS), spearheading the organization as its inaugural president. She also served as a contributing editor of '' MaComère'', journal of the ACWWS, first published in 1998. Pyne-Timothy was the author of ''The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society'' (1997), and also had her scholarly work published in book collections and journals, including in ''CLA Journal'', ''MaComère'' and the ''Journal of Haitian Studies''. She was married to Dr Earl Timothy, who died in 2014.

Selected bibliography

* ''The Woman, the Writer, and Caribbean Society: Critical Analyses of the Writings of Caribbean Women''. Center for African American Studies, 1998.

References

External links

* Christopher Laird
"Interview with Helen Pyne-Timothy"
(Trinidad and Tobago: Banyan Archive, 1993). Alexander Street. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyne-Timothy, Helen 1937 births 2015 deaths Jamaican academics Jamaican women academics Jamaican women writers Academic staff of the University of the West Indies University of Toronto alumni