Bhisé Center for Global Understanding presents: “Sylvie’s Love and Loss” Book Launch and Conversation with Ivelaw L. Griffith, PhD
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A reading and discussion of Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith’s first novel “Sylvie’s Love and Loss” with Patricia G. Lespinasse, PhD.
Set against the backdrop of the Caribbean island, Grenada. Griffith’s captivating story transcends romance, weaving a tapestry of personal triumphs and struggles against the country’s vibrant social climate.
About the Speakers
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, PhD
Scholar-turned-writer Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith has served as President of Fort Valley State University, Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Provost of universities in Virginia and New York, and Dean at Florida International University. He is the recipient of the William J. Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education from the Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at National Defense University. A widely published expert on Caribbean affairs with nine scholarly books to his credit, he has testified before the U.S. Congress and has served as a consultant to several international organizations. A member of the Vestry (governing board) of the Historic St. George’s Episcopal Church in Long Island and the Freeport/Merrick Rotary Club, he and Francille, his partner of four decades, have two adult children and one granddaughter. Sylvie’s Love and Loss is his first novel.
Patricia G. Lespinasse, PhD
Patricia G. Lespinasse, PhD is the Director and Associate Professor of African American Literature in the Center for African, Black, and Caribbean Studies at Adelphi University. She specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century African American and African Diaspora Literature. Dr. Lespinasse has received fellowships from Rutgers University and SUNY Binghamton. She is the author of The Drum Is A Wild Woman: Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature (2022) and Associate Editor of The New Black Renaissance: The Souls Anthology of Critical African-American Studies (2006). Her articles have appeared in the College Language Association Journal and Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. Professor Lespinasse earned her MA, MPhil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University, and her B.A. from St. John’s University. Before coming to Adelphi, she was a tenured Associate Professor in the department of Africana Studies at Binghamton University.
Co-sponsored by the Bhisé Center for Global Understanding and the Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies.
For more information about this event, please contact:
Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies
cabcs@adelphi.edu
516.877.4980