Helen Scott

Helen Scott is an associate professor at the University of Vermont where she teaches postcolonial studies in the English department and Women and Gender Studies program. She is currently a union delegate for United Academics: AFT-AAUP. She has published articles in Callaloo, International Socialist Review, Journal of Haitian Studies, and Postcolonial Text; has chapters in anthologies including Marxism, Modernity, and Postcolonial Studies, and Haiti: Writing Under Siege; and a book, Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence, published by Ashgate in 2006. She is the editor of The Essential Rosa Luxemburg, published by Haymarket Books in 2008. She is co-author with Paul LeBlanc of an anthology of Luxemburg’s writings forthcoming from Pluto Press. Originally from Britain, she has lived in the US since 1988 and is a long time socialist activist.