Nicole Roberts
Nicole Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Director of the Centre for Language Learning at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research work mainly explores race thinking and identity in the Afro-Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic). She has also published on study abroad, foreign/second language acquisition and social and socio-cultural factors in Hispanic culture. Her most recent publications include: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of the Southern Caribbean, Eds, Diego Mideros, Nicole Roberts, Beverly-Anne Carter and Hayo Reinders, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 and “Past Histories and Present Realities: The Paradox of Time and the Ritual of Performance in Mayra Santos Febres’ Fe en disfraz, in Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime, Eds., Odile Ferly and Tegan Zimmerman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. She is currently working on two book-length studies; one on culture in foreign language teaching and learning and another on the complete works of the Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos Febres.