Literary icon Mark Twain once said: “Write what you know.” And that’s what Sarah Waisvisz is doing for her PhD dissertation in the English Department at Carleton. Waisvisz is focusing on Caribbean authors“because I come from a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-linguistic background. Part of my heritage is Caribbean: my maternal grandfather was from a slave family in Martinique and I pursue my studies partly in honour of him and my enslaved ancestors. […] Sarah Casteel is my supervisor, and I also benefit from the mentorship of Brenda Carr Vellino of the English Department and Christine Duff of the French Department.” Read on