Anne Walmsley
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1931, Derby, England
Higher Education
1951-1954
University of Durham, BA hons in English (Open Exhibition)
1978-1979
University of Sussex, MA in African Studies
1988-1992
University of Kent, PhD in English
Employment
1955-1959
Faber & Faber (publishers): secretary
1960-1962
Westwood High School, Jamaica: teacher
1963-1966
BBC-TV: production secretary, research assistant
1966-1976
Longman (publishers): Caribbean Publisher, Africa Humanities Publisher
1976-1978
Longman Kenya (publishers): Publishing Manager
1980-1985
Index on Censorship: Africa Researcher (part-time)
1985-1988
Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Kent
Publications
(a) Books
The Sun_s Eye: West Indian Writing for Young Readers, compiler (Harlow, England: Longman, 1968; new edition 1989)
Longman Social Studies: A Junior Secondary Course (for schools in Nigeria), Books 1,2 & 3, contributor/co-ordinator (Ikeja, Nigeria: Longman Nigeria, 1983, 1984, 1985)
Facing the Sea: A New Anthology from the Caribbean Region, compiler, with Nick Caistor (Oxford, England: Heinemann, 1986)
Guyana Dreaming: The Art of Aubrey Williams, compiler (Aarhus, Denmark: Dangaroo, 1990)
The Caribbean Artists_ Movement 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History (London and Port of Spain: New Beacon, 1992)
(b) Educational material
A Postcard Pack of Art of the Caribbean, Goodwill Art Service, Upton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, 2003
(c) Selected articles
The Caribbean Artists Movement: 1967-1972_ in Artrage No 19, Winter 1987/8
Charting new directions: Caribbean literary journals and creative change, in Liz Gunner (ed.) Aspects of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 1 (London: University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1990)
Guyana dreaming in paint: obituary of Aubrey Williams_ in The Guardian, 1 May 1990
From Nature to Roots: school anthologies and a Caribbean canon, in Wasafiri No 11, Spring 1990, and in Anna Rutherford, (ed.) From Commonwealth to Post-Colonial (Aarhus, Denmark: Dangaroo, 1992
Her stem singing: Kamau Brathwaite's Zea Mexican Diary in World Literature Today, Vol 68 No 4, Autumn 1994
A sense of community: Edward Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean Artists Movement in Stewart Brown (ed.) The Art of Kamau Brathwaite (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1995)
Bridges of sleep: continental and island inheritance in the visual arts of Guyana in Hena Maes-Jelinek, Gordon Collier, Geoffrey V. Davis (ed.) A Talent(ed) Digger: Creations, Cameos, and Essays in honour of Anna Rutherford in Cross/Cultures 20 (Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA 1996, XIX)
Icons of identity: obituary of Denis Williams in The Guardian, 4 July 1998, and in Sunday Stabroek, Guyana, 5 July 1998
(d) Contributions to exhibition catalogues
Introduction, Caribbean Connection 2: Caribbean Beat, Islington Arts Factory, 1996
The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972: space and a voice for visual practice, Transforming the Crown, Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York, 1998
Introduction:, Wendy Nanan: Cricket Drawings, 1986-98, Trinidad Art Society, Port of Spain, Trinidad, 1998
Chronology, Aubrey Williams (London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1998), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and National Gallery of Jamaica, 1998, Barbados National Gallery, 1999
Introduction, The Elders: Brother Everald Brown and Stanley Greaves, South London Gallery, London and Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, 1999
Talks on art, with slides
Bridges of Sleep: continental and island inheritance in the visual arts of Guyana, post-graduate seminar, English Department, University of Leeds, and day seminar on Guyana, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1994
Ronald Moody, Aubrey Williams, and the Caribbean Artists Movement, Islington Arts Factory, London,1995
Aubrey Williams and the Caribbean Artists Movement, seminar on Aubrey Williams, October Gallery, London, 1996
Caribbean Carousel: an introduction to its visual arts, In-Service Teachers Education course, Goldsmiths College, London, 1996
Aspects of Caribbean Art, term's course of 9 lectures, as part of MA course, The Arts of the African Diaspora, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, January - April 2000
Emancipation in the Making: Visual Arts in the English-speaking Caribbean since Independence, Caribbean Seminar, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 11 February 2002; Caribbean Studies Research Seminar, University of Birmingham, 6 March 2003