My name is Amanda T. Perry. I’m a writer, scholar, and educator based in Montréal, Québec, where I currently teach at Champlain College-Saint Lambert and Concordia University.
Je m’appelle Amanda T. Perry. Je suis écrivaine, chercheuse et professeure. Établie à Montréal, j’enseigne au Collège Champlain-Saint Lambert et à l’Université Concordia.
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As a literary critic and journalist, I often write about education, the cultural industry, and Canadian regionalism, especially in relation to Alberta and Québec. I also have a longstanding dedication to the Caribbean: I completed a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University, where I focused on Caribbean literature in English, French and Spanish. My book,The Cuban Revolution in the Caribbean Imaginary: Race, Censorship, and Regionalism is forthcoming with University of Virginia Press in Fall 2027.
Whether it be scholarship, journalism, translation, or course design, my work has multilingualism at its core. This website is mostly in English, but I’m available in good French and Spanish, and passable Portuguese and Haitian Creole.
En tante que critique littéraire et journaliste, j’écris souvent sur l’éducation, l’industrie culturelle et le regionalisme canadien, surtout l’Alberta et le Québec. Je me consacre également depuis longtemps aux Caraïbes: j’ai obtenu un doctorat en littérature comparée à New York University, où mes recherches portaient sur les littératures caribéennes d’expression anglaise, française, et espagnole. Mon premier livre, The Cuban Revolution in the Caribbean Imaginary: Race, Censorship, and Regionalism paraîtra en automne 2027 avec University of Virginia Presss.
Que ce soit dans la recherche, le journalisme, ou l’enseignement, j’ai toujours le multilinguisme à cœur. Vous êtes les bienvenu-e-s de m’écrire en français. Le T de mon nom vient de Thérèse.
Since 2021, I have been a contributing editor with Literary Review of Canada, helping them expand their coverage of Québec. I have also written for The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve and The Ex-Puritan. My translations have appeared in Barricade and The Mercurian.
Public Writing
Scholarship
Find my scholarship in Small Axe, The Global South, Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies, and numerous edited volumes. My forthcoming book focuses on the Cuban Revolution’s resonance in the Anglophone Caribbean and Haiti, while I have also written on material from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Teaching
By day, I am an English professor at Champlain College-Saint Lambert, part of Québec’s unique Cégep system. I also teach Caribbean and Postcolonial literature at Concordia University. I’ve taught classes at New York University and Dawson College, given guest lectures at Yale, Dartmouth, UQAM, and McGill, and designed graduate student writing workshops.