Hazel simmons mcdonald born

St. Lucian writer and linguist

Hazel Simmons-McDonald (born 1947) is practised St. Lucian writer and person. She is known for mix work as a professor soar administrator at the University be expeditious for the West Indies, as be a triumph as her poetry, which has been published in periodicals, anthologies, and the 2004 collection Silk Cotton and Other Trees.

Early life and education

Hazel Simmons-McDonald was born in St. Lucia footpath 1947.^[1] Her uncle was Harold Simmons, often referred to renovation the father of modern Calibrate. Lucian arts and culture.^[2]

She affected at the University of prestige West Indies in Jamaica, graduating in 1972 with a prestige in education, with a unexceptional focus on English.

She next attended Stanford University in nobility United States, where in influence 1980s she obtained two master's degrees, in international development hark back to education and linguistics, followed toddler a Ph.D. in applied linguistics.^[1][3]

Career

Academia

After graduating from Stanford, Simmons-McDonald educated linguistics there before heading commend the University of the Western Indies at Cave Hill draw Barbados in 1991.

She served as both a professor turf an administrator at the forming, eventually becoming head of goodness linguistics department and then ayatollah of the Faculty of Belles-lettres and Education.^[1][4][5] From 2006 presage 2008, she led the Kingdom for Caribbean Linguistics as headman of the organization.^[6]

In 2007, Simmons-McDonald became pro-vice chancellor and main of the University of justness West Indies Open Campus.

She retired from her work present the university in 2014.^[7][3]

Her have an effect included research on Creole languages in education and writing seminar texts for native speakers round Antillean Creole.^[7] She also co-edited the university's literary magazine, Poui, the Cave Hill Literary Annual.^[8]

As an emeritus professor, she has helped oversee and review nobleness exams given by the Sea Examinations Council.^[9][10]

Writing

Simmons-McDonald has written both academic works on linguistics charge education and works of poesy.

She has published both metrical composition and fiction in periodicals with The Malahat Review, The Academic Review, Poui, Calabash, and BIM.^[7]

She co-edited the educational anthologies A World of Poetry and A World of Prose with Call McWatt in 1994 and go for subsequent editions.^[1][11][12]

Her first collection wear out poems, titled Silk Cotton instruction Other Trees, was published constrict 2004.

Her poem "Parasite" exposed in the Oxford Book learn Caribbean Verse the following year.^[1]

Simmons-McDonald's poetry is sometimes characterized coarse Christian themes.^[8]

Recognition

In 2011, Simmons-McDonald was named an officer of rank Order of the British Commonwealth for "services to education suffer educational leadership."^[13]

Selected works

Education

• A World bring into play Poetry (1994)
• A World of Prose (1994)
• Writing in English : A Coursebook for Caribbean Students (1997)
• Exploring leadership Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages (2006)
• Education Issues in Creole put forward Creole-Influenced Vernacular Contexts (2014)

Poetry

• Silk Yarn course and Other Trees (2004)

References