Gabrielle Jean-Louis

The Caribbean Digital Scholarship Collective (CDSC) brings together a team of seasoned scholars and educators, in partnership with community groups and academic institutions, to offer programs aimed at nurtuting digital scholarship about the Caribbean and its diasporas. These offerings and associations are made possible by a generaous Mellon Foundation Grant. Under the direction of Professor Kelly Baker Josephs, I assisted in the programming of The Caribbean Digital Annual Conference, The Caribbean Digitial Artist’s Virtual Residency and the Caribbean Digital Scholarship Summer Institute. Skills unique to my position include but are not limited to

• Community outreach in Miami and surrounding regions
• Organization of data from over 300 CDSsi application materials

As an English Composition Instructor prioritized New York State Standards for Adult Education learning while fostering a welcoming and innovative environment for English Language Learners. I aimed to support the development of my student’s grammatical skills and introduce them to genres of technical writing most suitable for careers in the healthcare industry.

• College Instruction
• English Language Learners

As an English 105 instructor, I introduced students to the types of reading, writing, and thinking that occurs in the university community. They were asked to read several essays and to write in ways generated by Caribbean writers, making use of their ideas for their own purposes. In this sense, writing became an act of “thinking on paper,” a constant negotiation and reformulation, a process that involved juggling complicated ideas of their own and of others. The courses functioned as a workshop of sorts, a roundtable of opinion and debate that promoted revision and re-evaluation in writing as well as their thinking.

• Language, Power, and Community
• Writing about the Caribbean