Poetry and Caribbean Short Fiction at 19Carter

All are invited to hear Barbara Paul-Emile offer a dynamic reading from her short fiction and poetry collection! 

Now living in Berlin, Paul-Emile is an award-winning author born and raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her fiction and poetry, inspired by the mystical heritage of Caribbean island culture, has appeared in American and Canadian journals. Her novel Seer, winner of the Chelson Award for fiction, warms the heart and stirs the spirit. Paul-Emile’s Mosaic: Caribbean Short Fiction Collection presents dramatic images that mirror, as with a painter’s brush, portraits of characters facing life issues. This author is described as possessing “an exciting and original voice in Caribbean literature that chronicles the richness of the multicultural experience with strong cross-cultural appeal”.

Barbara Paul-Emile is the inaugural Maurice E. Goldman Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Bentley University.  She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at New York University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado–Boulder. Dr. Paul-Emile’s work centers on 19th century English Romantic Literature, Myth, and Caribbean Literature.

Named Massachusetts Professor of the Year (1994-5) by the Carnegie Foundation and by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Dr. Paul-Emile was honored by the University of Massachusetts, receiving its Distinguished Scholar Award and was awarded Bentley University’s highest teaching honor: The Adamian Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a four-time winner of the Teaching Innovation Award, a two-time winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, and the recipient of several publication awards.

Dr. Paul-Emile was selected by the Women of Harvard Club Committee as an honoree for demonstrated leadership and outstanding achievement at their 3^rd Annual Boston’s Most Influential Women’s Award Ceremony, 2014.  She was the recipient of Bentley University’s Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award 2020 and was recently honored by New York University’s Alumni Association as recipient of their 2024 Alumni Achievement Award.