1979: B.S. Journalism, William Allen White School of Journalism, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
1978: M.A. Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
1976: B.A. (Hons) in English Literature, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University
August 1992—Present
Head, Publications Section, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES, formerly ISER), University of the West Indies, Mona Responsible for running of Publications section. Duties include acting as managing editor of quarterly journal Social and Economic Studies and supervision of small book sales unit and staff thereof.
2000: Recipient of Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development grant in support of the book I am writing on The Problem of Art in Postcolonial Jamaica.
Books
Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, Annie Paul (ed.), Kingston: UWI Press, 2007.
Forthcoming August 2008:
The Cultural Economy, Volume 2, The Cultures and Globalization Series. Helmut K. Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Editors. Associate Editor: Annie Paul, Guest Editor: Stuart Cunningham, London: Sage 2008
Refereed journal and book articles
“Subjects Matter: The Repeating AlterNATIVE and the Expat Gaze”, Arts Education for Societies in Crisis. Eds. Rawle Gibbons and Dani Lyndersay, UWI, St. Augustine: Centre for Creative and Festival Arts. 2007. pp. 31-53.
“Visualizing Art in the Caribbean” (essay commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC), Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with Philip Wilson Publishers (London), 2007, pp. 18-32. Edited by Tumelo Mosaka; texts by Tumelo Mosaka, Annie Paul, and Nicollette Ramirez., 224 pages, 204 color illustrations
Annie Paul, “Cock Soup”, Callaloo (Johns Hopkins University Press) 30.1 (2007) 48–50
Annie Paul, “’No Grave Cannot Hold My Body Down:’ Rituals of Death and Burial in Postcolonial Jamaica”, Small Axe 23, June 2007, Vol. 11, No. 2.“
Body Wisdom: The Way of Karate”, South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press), The Pleasure Principle: Sport for the Sake of Pleasure, Volume 105, Number 2, Spring 2006. pp. 397-407.
“The Ironies of History: An Interview with Stuart Hall”, IDEAZ, Volume 3, Nos. 1-2, 2004, pp. 53-80.
Caribbean Locales/Global Artworlds, Small Axe 16, September 2004, Special issue edited by Annie Paul and Krista Thompson.
“Emancipating Ourselves…in Post-Slave Societies of the New World”, Axis: Journal of the School of Caribbean Architecture, Vol. 7, June 2004, pp. 122-135.
“Sound Systems Against the ‘Unsound System’ of Babylon: Rude/Lewd Lyrics vs. Nude Tourists in Jamaica”, in Créolité and Creolization: Documenta11_Platform3", edited by Okwui Enwezor et al., Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003, pp. 117-136. (Documenta is a major German art forum which the New York Times referred to as the “Olympics of the art world”).
Interview with Christopher Cozier by Annie Paul, Bomb magazine, Broadway, New York, Americas/Caribbean issue, Winter 2002/2003, pp. 66-73“’
The Enigma of Survival’: Travelling Beyond the Expat Gaze”, Art Journal, Volume 62, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 48-67. A prestigious American journal out of New York which is the official organ of the CAA (College Arts Association) of America. Art Journal, founded in 1941, is a quarterly magazine devoted to 20th-and 21st-century art.
“Framing the Postcolonial: Annie Paul on Christopher Cozier” in New Internationalism, Danish Centre for Culture and Development: Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002, pp. 60-74.
“The Repeating AlterNATIVE and the Expat Gaze”, in Politicas de la Diferencia: Arte IberoAmericano Fin de Siglo (The Politics of Difference: Ibero-American Art at the End of the Century), Generalitat Valenciana: Valencia, Spain, 2001, pp. 334-357.
“Whose Caribbean Art?” published in Conference Proceedings of the AICA Southern Caribbean’s 3-day Symposium “Caribbean Art Criticism”, Barbados, 2000.
“Uninstalling the Nation: The Dilemma of Contemporary Jamaican Art”, Small Axe, Number 6, September 1999, Special Issue on Art in the Caribbean, pp. 57-78. This particular issue was guest edited by Christopher Cozier and myself.
“Legislating Taste: The Curator’s Palette”, Small Axe, Number 4, September 1998, pp. 65-83.“Meeting History with Art: ‘The Myriad of Myself’”, n. paradoxa online, no. 8, November 1998
“Meeting History with Art: ‘The Myriad of Myself’”, catalogue essay for Lips, Sticks and Marks, exhibition held at The Art Foundry, Barbados, August-October ‘98.
“Mind the Gap: A Response to Vigilante Criticism”, Trinidad and Tobago Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 10-12, December 1997.
“Securing a Distinctive Community of Adherents”, review essay on Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Small Axe, Number 2, September 1997.
“Pirates or Parrots? A Critical Perspective on the Visual Arts in Jamaica,” Small Axe, Number 1, March 1997, pp. 49-64.
“Voices or Echoes? A Look at the 1993 Annual National Exhibition and Art in Jamaica”, Jamaica Journal, Vol 25, No. 2, December 1994.
Magazines
“The Iron Man”, article on sculptor Christopher Irons, First Magazine Online, Apr 4th, 2008.
Review of 2006 Jamaica National Biennial exhibition, Caribbean Review of Books, May 2007.
Review of Art of the Caribbean: Selection of Postcards and Text by Anne Walmsley, The Goodwill Art Service Ltd, Oxford, Wasafiri (London) Vol. 22, No. 1 March 2007, pp. 82-84.
Review of Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop, ed. Colin Channer, Caribbean Review of Books, August 2006.
“Reading, writing, religion”, an interview with Mark McWatt and Marlon James, Caribbean Review of Books, November 2006.
“Gazing At Herself”, article on Irenee Shaw, Trinidadian painter, Caribbean Beat, Issue 77, January/February 2006
“Father Abrahams”, Tribute to Jamaican painter, Carl Abrahams, Caribbean Beat, Issue. 75, September/October 2005
“Running A University Is Like Running A Dance Company”, Rex Nettleford in his own words, Caribbean Beat, Issue. 75, September/October 2005
"The Art of Ital”, review of Rastafarian Art, Caribbean Review of Books, May 2005
“Fierce Obsession”, review of My Jamaica: The Paintings of Judy Ann McMillan, Caribbean Review of Books, February 2005.
“Culture Is Always a Translation”, Stuart Hall in his own words as told to Annie Paul, Caribbean Beat, January/February 2005 Issue (No. 71).
“Isle full of stories”, Caribbean Review of Books, Volume 1, Number 3, Nov 2004.
“Rastaman Vibrations”, essay on re-issue of Brother Man by Roger Mais, Caribbean Review of Books, Volume 1, Number 2, Aug 2004.
“Tales of the City”, Caribbean Review of Books, Volume 1, Number 1, May 2004, pp. 10-11.
Review of Modern Jamaican Art in The Jamaica Historical Review, Vol. XIX 1998In addition I write a bi-weekly opinion column in the Sunday Herald.
July 3-7, 2008. “Stars Are Born: Entertainment Report (ER) as an Archive of Jamaican Popular Culture”, 2008 ACS Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona
April 10 – 12, 2008. Chapter presentation, Authors’ Meeting, Volume III, 'Cultural Expression, Creativity and Innovation,’ Cultures and Globalization Series 2009, The Museum of World CultureGothenburg, Sweden.
February 18-24, 2008, “As Jamaican as Ackee and Saltfish”: Cindy Breakspeare as Reggae Subject, Global Reggae conference, , UWI, Mona.
November 23, 2007: “‘Do you remember the days of slav’ry?’ Connecting the past with the present in contemporary Jamaica”, paper given at conference on Remembering Slave Trade Abolitions: The Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in International Perspective, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
September 22, 2007. Panelist, Infinite Island Discussion Series: Visualizing Caribbean Art and Culture in the Twenty-First Century, Brooklyn Museum, New York,
May 26, 2007 Michael Bennett and Annie Paul, “Reggae’s Voice: The Accent of Difference”, 32nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, May 28-. 10 pages.
March 22, 2007 “Dancehall in Jamaica: Keeping it Jiggy in Babylon”, panel on “The Performing Arts”, symposium on “CENSORSHIP AND THE ARTS IN THE CARIBBEAN”, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts,. 16 pages.
January 6, 2007 “CARIBBEAN ART: Gulf Stream, Mainstream or Next Wave?” invited participant, Panel Discussion for Art Miami 2007, Miami Beach Convention Center,. Panel participants: Deborah Cullen, Curator, El Museo del Barrio; Annie Paul, Cultural Critic, Small Axe; Edouard Duval-Carrie, Artist; Haydee Venegas Avilla, Art Historian and Curator.
July 6, 2006, “Dancehall in Jamaica: Keeping it ‘Jiggy’ in Babylon”, panel on The Politics of Music and Dance, 30th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies, in association with 'Your Caribbean Heritage Project', The National Archives, Kew, London, July 5-7, 2006. 27 pages.
May 30, 2006 “A University is a University is a University: Poor People Need Thought Too”, panel on Indigenous Politics & Education at 31st Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association Crowne Plaza Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, May 29-June 5, 2006. 11 pages.
January 21, 2006, “No Space for Race? The Bleaching of the Nation in Postcolonial Jamaica”, paper delivered at conference in honour of Barry Chevannes, UWI, Mona, Identity, Worldview and Religion: Beyond Caribbean Cultural Norms. 21 pages.
June 30th 2005,.Keynote Perspective Speaker, 2nd Caribbean International Symposium in Arts Education held by the Centre for Creative & Festival Arts, UWI, St Augustine, in collaboration with UNESCO.
June 14, 2005, “New Worlds, New Groups: Critical Currents Today”, paper delivered at the New World Group conference of the Centre for Caribbean Thought, UWI, Mona.
June 1, 2004, “Emancipating Ourselves…in Post-Slave Societies of the New World”, paper given at the 29th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, St. Kitts & Nevis.
March 21, 2003, “Dancehall in Jamaica: On Babylon, Violence, ‘Poor Taste’ and the Disappearance of Jonkonnu”, paper given in panel on Cultural Preservation, at the XXII Annual West Indian Literature Conference: Caribbean Currents, Navigating the Web and the Word, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
March 14 --17, 2003: invited participant in V Dialogos Iberoamericanos International Symposium on art -- Valencia (Spain).
January 12-16, 2002: “Sound Systems against the ‘Unsound System’ of Babylon: Rude/Lewd Lyrics vs. Nude Tourists in Jamaica” paper presented at Platform 3 of Documenta 11, closed workshop on Creolité and Creolization, Hyatt Regency, St Lucia.
January 9-12, 2002 : “Obscenity in Transit: Rude/Lewd Lyrics vs. Nude Tourists in Jamaica” paper presented at 2nd Conference on Caribbean Culture, in Honour of Kamau Brathwaite, UWI, Mona. Paul gave the same paper at the SALISES Third Annual Conference, UWI, Mona, Jamaica,
April 3-6, 2002.November 2001: Juror at the IV Caribbean Biennial of Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
June 15, 2001: ‘The Turn of the Native: InDifferent Times’, presentation at the IV International Symposium Dialogos Iberoamericanos, Post Issues: Strategies of Contemporary Creation, Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. I was honoured to be the first person invited to represent the Anglophone Caribbean at this prestigious forum in Spain.
September 19, 2000: Stuart Hall in conversation with Annie Paul and Steve Ouditt on “The Caribbean: A Quintessentially Modern Zone” at the Institute of International Visual Art (inIVA), London.
September 16, 2000: “‘The Enigma of Survival: Travelling Beyond the ‘Expat’ Gaze” as respondent to Professor Sarat Maharaj of Goldsmith College, University of London at the AICA 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS & SYMPOSIUM at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art, Bankside, London.
August 25, 2000: “‘The Demand of Criticism in the Postcolonial Present’: An Angle”, paper delivered at CARIFESTA VII, St. Kitts.
“The Mother Who Fathered Jamaican Art: Edna Manley, The Ancestor”, paper presented at Caribbean Intellectual Traditions Conference, Department of History, UWI, Mona, October 31-November 1, 1999.
“Whose Caribbean Art?”, paper presented at AICA Southern Caribbean’s 3-day symposium
“Caribbean Art Criticism” at the Sherbourne Centre, Bridgetown, Barbados, August 28-30, 1998.
“Legislating Taste: The Curator’s Palette”, paper presented at Annual National Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) in Antigua, May, 1998.
“Pirates or Parrots? A Critical Perspective on the Visual Arts in Jamaica,” paper presented at XXL Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-31, 1996.
Courses, Workshops etc
Completed course Introduction to Curatorial Studies – Semester II, 2007-2008, at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts
Contribution to Public Life, Achievements etc
In January 2008 I started a blog called Active Voice. Some of the subjects covered thus far include discussion of the term ‘Coolie’, perjury by policemen, homophobia and coverage of events such as the Calabash Literary Festival, the MG Smith Conference, Kingston on the Edge urban arts festival among other things. The blog has attracted a lot of attention and been cited by international media such as the Guardian London, Global Voices and the Literary Saloon
Chair, Programme Sub-Committee, 7th International Conference of the Association of Cultural Studies, Crossroads 2008, July 3-7, 2008 at UWI, Mona
Reviewed manuscript “Beyond Borders: Cross-culturalism and the Caribbean Canon” for UWI PressAssociate Editor, Cultures and Globalization Series, Sage, London, 2006-07.
2001-2002: Publications Chair of 2nd Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.
1997-98: Served on Academic Board as WIGUT (West Indies Group of University Teachers) representative
1995-1998: Served on Security Sub-committee as WIGUT representative
1994-97: Served on WIGUT executive as Publications Secretary. Responsible for revitalizing ADZE, the union newsletter.
Consultant, Prince Claus Awards 2006. I was asked to recommend individual (s) from the Caribbean worthy of such recognition. The Prince Claus Fund decided to honour my nominee, Erna Brodber, with one of their awards.
Represented Jamaica at the 72nd PEN International Congress, May 22-28, 2006 in Berlin (GDR) where the Jamaican bid to form a PEN Centre was officially ratified.
Juror, Super Plus Under 40 Artist of the Year Competition 2006-2008, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston
Juror, The Derek Walcott TTW Prize for Fiction (short story) Trinidad and Tobago, December 2005
Associate Editor of Small Axe (www.smallaxe.net), a journal brought out by the Small Axe Collective of which I am a founding editor. Currently in its ninth volume Small Axe was started in Jamaica in 1997 and is currently published by Duke University Press, USA.
Member of Editorial Board, the new Caribbean Review of Books.
Boardmember, JAMCOPY, the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency.
May 1, 2004: Panelist, “What Makes a Critic Good?”, Calabash International Literary Festival Publishing Seminars, Philip Sherlock Centre, UWI, Mona.
Summer 2003: Served as contributing editor to the 2004 Bomb magazine (cultural quarterly, 594 Broadway, Suite 905, New York, NY 10012) Winter 2003/2004 special issue on the Caribbean. Duties included recommending Caribbean authors and artists to be included in this issue..
January 20, 2003: consultant in a discussion on “Art and the Market” with Tim Marlow (editor of the Tate magazine, London) in his programme Meridian Masterpieces, BBC World Service.
1991-94: Managing Editor of the Caribbean Review of Books. In the latter capacity I designed the format of the Review and was responsible for soliciting articles and reviews for it as well as the actual production of each issue. After its debut in August 1991, CRB already had a list of 200 plus subscribers. Although it had to discontinued in 1994 because of inadequate funding and institutional support it was much appreciated and we still get requests for it especially from Caribbean scholars abroad.
1991-93: Co-ordinator of the UWI Publishers’ Association
1991-96: Member of the National Committee on Publishing and Production, a body involved in the drafting of a new copyright bill among other things. It was co-ordinated by the National Council on Libraries, Archives and Information Systems (NACOLAIS).
1991-Present: Member, Book Industry Association of Jamaica