A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Patricia Saunders, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami. Her work focuses on the relationship between sexual identity, national identity, and practices of consumption in Caribbean literature and popular culture. She is completing her second book, Buyers Beware: Epistemologies of Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture, to be published in 2019. In this critical study, she argues that consumption is fast becoming a primary mode of exercising citizenship globally, and particularly in the Caribbean. By examining a wide range of consumption practices that include culinary, sexual, and cultural commodities, she considers how the Caribbean region has been (and continues to be) produced as a site for exploitation. Her work has appeared in The Bucknell Review, Calabash, Plantation Society in the Americas, and Small Axe.
