Instructor
English
DaSilva Academic Center
Staten Island campus
outarl@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
B.A., Princeton University,
M.A., The University of Chicago,
Ph.D., The University of Chicago; Caribbean Literature;
Postcolonial Theory
Profile
Lisa Outar joined the English Department faculty in the fall of
2006. She conducted her undergraduate education at Princeton
University and her master’s and doctoral work at the University of
Chicago. Her dissertation examines the place of Indianness in
creolization discourses in the Anglophone and Francophone
Caribbean. Her research takes up the larger question of the
role of literature and popular cultural forms in both responding
to, and helping to produce, ideas of nation. She has
published work on the Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul and
has a breadth of teaching and research interests which include
global fiction, autobiography, African and South Asian writing,
African-American and Asian-American literature, diaspora studies,
third world feminism, and trauma theory.