Sandra Pouchet Paquet

Sandra Pouchet Paquet is a Trinidad-born scholar and academic. A pioneer in US-based Caribbean studies, she became a professor of English at the University of Miami in 1992. She has been particularly noted for her work on writer George Lamming.

Biography Sandra Pouchet was born in Trinidad, and undertook studies for her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the United States.

In 1982, she published the first book-length study of the fiction of George Lamming, The Novels of George Lamming, regarded as "a seminal work", and she is also the author Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation (2002). She was the founder in 2003 of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal and served as its editor until 2009.