Melinda Maxwell-Gibb

Female

Orocovis, PR

Puerto Rico

Profile Information:

About Me:

Mixed-blood native american (Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw) from Alabama. I have lived in Puerto Rico for 28 years and am currently a Professor at Universidad Interamericana Metropolitana in San Juan, PR. My professional research consists of finding connections between the indigenous of the Caribbean and the tribes of the indigenous southeastern United States.

Occupation:

Professor

Education:

- Professional Diploma - Music Produciton and Audio Engineering: Berklee College of Music; Boston, MA (1986) (Master's engineering degree - High Honorable).
-BA Elementary Education (ESL): InterAmerican University; Barranquitas, PR (1998). Magna Cum Laude
- MA English Literature (Victorian Poetry and The Novel); Rio Piedras: University of Puerto Rico (2004). Magna Cum Laude
- PhD The Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Anglophone Caribbean . Rio Piedras: University of Puerto Rico (2016). Paso Sobresaliente.

Contact Information:

Melinda Maxwell-Gibb

wolfspirit_mm@yahoo.com

mmaxwell@intermetro.edu

Research Interests:

My current research focuses on connections between the indigenous tribes
of the southeastern United States and those of the Indigenous Caribbean.

Publications:

MA Thesis:
Ave Atque Vale: The Influence of Charles Baudelaire on the Poetry of A.C. Swinburne. UP Puerto Rico, 2004.

PhD Dissertation : ~Mabuika – Tau~ Survival, Resistance and Resurgence: Contemporary Indigenous Identity and Representation in the Caribbean. ProQuest, 2016.

“Georgia Connections: possible Caribbean indigenous presence and influence on the Native American confederacies of the southeastern United States.” Positive Interferences: Unsettling Resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond. Volume 2. Ed.s Faraclas, N., R. Severing, C. Weijer, E. Echteld, w. Rutgers, S. Delgado. Wilemstad, Curacao: University of Curacao, 2019.
289-295.

“Reseña de Homenaje a las guerreras/Homage to the Warrior Women by Peggy Robles- Alvarado.” Enfocas Críticos. Diferencias. San Juan: CIIEG
Inter Metro, 2018.

“From Bacoo to Bohpoli: Amerindian Elements Found in the Folklore of Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean.” Memories of Caribbean futures: Reclaiming the Pre-colonial to Imagine a Post-colonial in the Languages and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean and Beyond. Vol. I. Eds. Faraclas, N., R. Severing, C. Weijer, E. Echteld, W. Rutgers and R. Dupey. Wilemstad, Curacao: University of Curacao, 2017. 145-150.

“Wendigo, Canaima, Caníbal: A Journey into the World of Amerindian Shape-Shifting.” Double Voicing and Multiplex Identities: Unpacking Hegemonic and Subaltern Discourses in the Caribbean. ED. Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne. Willemstad, Curacao: FPI & Universidat de Korsou, 2012. 445-49.

“A Literary Journey – The Caribs of Dominica: Survival, Resistance and Resurgence.” Sargasso: 25 Interviews of Celebrating Caribbean Voices: 2010-2011- Special Issue. San Juan: Sargasso & Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2011. 36-48. (interviews with former Chiefs Garnette Joseph and Irvince Augiste)

“The Moon Has A Dirty Face: An Exploration into the Migration of an Amerindian Origin Myth.” Anansi’s Defiant Webs: Contact, Continuity, Convergence, and Complexity in the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the Greater Caribbean. ED. Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne. Willemstad,Curacao: FPI & Universidat de Korsou, 2011. 337-45.

“Survival, Resistance and Resurgence: Reclaiming Our Own ‘Utterances’.” In A Sea of Hetroglossia: Pluri-Lingualism, Pluri-Culturalism, and Pluri-Identification in the Caribbean. Ed. Nicholas Faraclas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Marsha Hinds-Layne, Elena Lawton de Torruella. Curacao: FPI & UNA, 2010. 369-75.

Affiliation:

Virtual Caribbean Library - Special Collections: Lost Voices Forgotten Voyages: The Indigenous Caribbean

Link:

http://virtual-caribbean.com/

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