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Prof Gordon Rohlehr, one of the region's finest thinkers and celebrators of culture, has passed
Campus News
Pioneering Caribbean intellectual who made an invaluable contribution to the study of literature, oral tradition and calypso passes away at age 80
Professor Emeritus Gordon Rohlehr, a beloved Caribbean academic renowned for his teaching and scholarship in West Indian literature, calypso, oral poetry, and cricket, passed away on January 29, 2023.
He was 80.
Professor Rohlehr began his UWI career in 1968 at the St Augustine campus as an assistant lecturer in English Literature, spending four decades as an educator, writer, researcher and public intellectual.
Gordon rohlehr biography
His contributions to the study and understanding of Caribbean culture have made an invaluable impact on the university.
“His legacy is carried in the students he nurtured at the St Augustine campus through conversation and intense enquiry,” said Campus Principal Professor Rose-Marie Belle Antoine.
“His former stude