Evelyn O'Callaghan was born on 20 September 1954 and is a Jamaican academic who is a professor of West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies.
10 Facts About Evelyn O'Callaghan
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Evelyn O'Callaghan was the first Jamaican woman to win a Rhodes Scholarship.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan moved to Jamaica as a small child, and attended Mount Alvernia High School in Montego Bay.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan completed her undergraduate education at Ireland's University College Cork, which her father had attended.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan was Jamaica's Rhodes Scholar for 1978, the first woman to be selected for the honour, and subsequently completed a Master of Letters degree at Wolfson College, Oxford.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan later completed a doctorate at the University of the West Indies, with her thesis being supervised by Edward Baugh.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan initially worked as a junior lecturer in English literature at the UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan transferred to the Cave Hill, Barbados, campus in 1983, and was eventually awarded a full professorship.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan is the current dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, and has previously served as head of the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature.
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Evelyn O'Callaghan is an editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature, and has written several books about early West Indian women writers.