Research Interests: Twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean literature; Black women writers; race and gender theory; the intellectual in literature

Alisa Braithwaite joined the MIT faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Literature. She received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard in the spring of 2006, and her BA with High Honors from Barnard College in 1998. She is originally from New York.  Braithwaite's research focuses on the works of Anglophone Caribbean women writers, such as Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge and Michelle Cliff. Her current book project explores how these authors redefine the practices of reading and writing through the lens of migration.  In her spare time she practices yoga and reads Caribbean science fiction.

21L.003 Reading Fiction

21L.007 World Literatures

21L.512 American Authors: Sex and the City