Laurie Lambert

Laurie Lambert is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University. She specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of literature and history in African Diaspora Studies. Her research focuses on Black Feminism, Black Radicalism, and Caribbean and African Diasporic cultural production. Lambert's 2020 book Comrade Sister: Caribbean Feminist Revisions of the Grenada Revolution examines gendered political trauma narratives in Grenada's revolutionary history.

Lambert holds a B.F.A. in Film Studies from Ryerson University (Toronto), an M.A. in English from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University. She previously taught at University of California, Davis (2013-2017) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University (2014-2015).

Her work explores how Caribbean women writers use authorship to challenge patriarchal historical narratives and assert cultural sovereignty. Research interests include postcolonial theory, revolutionary memory, and decolonial aesthetics. Lambert co-founded Fordham’s Freedom and Slavery Working Group (2019-2023) and serves as Secretary of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).

Her publications span journals like Cultural Dynamics, The Global South, and Small Axe. Current research intersects queer Caribbean ethics, epidemic histories, and postcolonial political imaginaries. Lambert’s scholarship bridges literary analysis with critical interventions in diasporic historiography and radical thought.