Carolyn Cooper

Carolyn Cooper is professor emerita, literary and cultural studies, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of two influential academic books, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large (2004); and Noises In the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the ‘Vulgar’ Body of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993). She is the editor of the award-winning essay collection Global Reggae (2012). In the 1990s, Cooper wrote a weekly bilingual column for The Jamaica Observer on a wide range of contentious issues such as race, class and gender politics. From 2009 to 2024, she was an equally controversial columnist for The Sunday Gleaner. For her outstanding work in the field of Education, she was awarded the national honour, the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander in 2013.