IAN GREGORY STRACHAN is Associate Professor of English at The College of The Bahamas.  He received a BA in English from Morehouse College (1990) and an MA (1993) and PhD (1995) in English from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a former Research Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia (1998-1999) and a former Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (1999-2001).  He served as Chair of the School of English Studies at COB from 2004-2007.   His book, Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean, was published in 2002 and discusses the politics of tourism in the region.  He is a poet, playwright, novelist and filmmaker. His first novel, God’s Angry Babies was published in 1997.  He has written and directed a number of plays that have been performed nationally and internationally, including No Seeds in Babylon (1991), which appears in the anthology Contemporary Drama for the Caribbean (2001) and Diary of Souls (1999).  In 1996 he founded the Track Road Theatre Foundation and served as its Director until 2006. In 2007 his poetry was included in the anthology New Caribbean Poetry (Carcanet  2007).  He wrote and directed his first film, Show Me Your Motion: The Ringplay Games of The Bahamas in 2006.  In 2007 this documentary was featured in the UNESCO Caribbean Traveling Film Showcase. He is the author of the popular newspaper column “East Street Blues” which has appeared each week in The Nassau Guardian since 2006 and was the host of the daily public affairs talk show, “The Nation Today” in 2009.  He is also a founder and member of the civil society advocacy group, the 1962 Foundation.

CONTACTS

P. O. Box SB 52746

Nassau, New Providence

BAHAMAS

(242) 302-4381

strachantalk@gmail.com

istrachan@cob.edu.bs