Merle Hodge

  • Merle  Hodge
© Merle Hodge
Writer, Activist
Principal country concerned : Column : Literature
Trinidad and Tobago


Hodge is a retired Senior Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has taught West Indian and African Diaspora Literature and Creative Writing at tertiary and secondary school levels. She currently facilitates numerous creative writing workshops. Hodge has written numerous non-fiction essays of literary criticism and on social issues in Trinidad and Tobago. Hodge is a founding member of the group Women Working for Social Progress and continues to be a prominent local activist.



Born in 1944, Hodge received both her elementary and high school education in Trinidad. As a student of Bishop Anstey's High School, she won the Trinidad and Tobago Girls Island Scholarship in 1962. The scholarship allowed her to attend University College, London, where she pursued studies in French. In 1965 she completed her B.A. Hons. and received a Master of Philosophy degree in 1967, the focus of which concerned the poetry of the French Guyanese writer, Leon Damas.

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