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Kenneth Ramchand, Ph.D., is "arguably the most prominent living critic of Caribbean fiction".
Ramchand is Professor Emeritus of English at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Until he resigned in June 2009, he was associate provost at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. He was an independent Senator in the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago. Ramchand is a well known and widely respected literary critic. He is also an Emeritus Professor at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
In 1996, Ramchand was awarded a Trinidad & Tobago Chaconia Medal Gold for his work in Literature, Education and Culture. In 2012, the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago honoured him with a NALIS Lifetime Literary Achievement Award. NALIS writes: "Ramchand is one of the Caribbean’s most prominent literary critics. He has written extensively on a many West Indian authors, including V. S. Naipaul, Earl Lovelace and Sam Selvon, and he has edited several significant cultural publications. Ramchand’s seminal text, The West Indian Novel and Its Background, influenced the creation and internationalization of West Indian Literature as an academic discipline and his work transformed UWI’s syllabus in English."
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