Selwyn Cudjoe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Selwyn Cudjoe

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago

Profession: historian, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Selwyn Cudjoe (born 1 December 1943) is a Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College.
He was also the Margaret E.
Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T.
Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley.
His particular expertise is Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history, and he teaches courses on the African-American literary tradition, African literature, black women writers, and Caribbean literature.