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Seodial Frank H. Deena is Associate Professor at East Carolina University where he co-coordinates the Multicultural Literature Program and teaches multicultural, world, postcolonial, African American, and Caribbean literature, as well as the Bible as literature. He received his Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree from the University of Guyana. He has published widely in professional journals such as College Language Association Journal, UFAHAMU: Journal of the African Activist Association, Commonwealth Novel in English, Commonwealth Review, Indo-American Review, The Literary GRIOT, and Journal of Caribbean Literature; and has chapters in Postcolonial Discourse (Prestige 1996), Literature of Nature (Fitzroy Dearborn 1998), and TerranglianTerritories (Peter Lang 2000). His book, Canonization, Colonization, Decolonization: A Comparative Study of Political and Critical Works By Minority Writers, has been published by Peter Lang Publishing INC. in 2002. From Around the Globe: Secular Authors and Biblical Perspectives and Situating Caribbean Literature and Criticism in Multicultural and Postcolonial Studies are forthcoming in 2005. Dr. Deena has traveled to more than 50 countries, and he brings an international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary approach to his research, teaching, and service.

Dr. Deena serves as MLA Bibliographer for postcolonial journals, and he is on the editorial boards of Indo-American Review, The Commonwealth Review, Journal of Caribbean Studies, and A Turbulent Voyage. He reads for Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies and Literature Interpretation Theory.