Carolyn Cooper

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carolyn Cooper
Occupation	Literary Scholar
Date Of Birth	Nov 20, 1950(1950-11-20)
Age	74
Birthplace	Kingston
Country	Jamaica
Birth City	Kingston Parish
Horoscope	Scorpio

Carolyn Cooper Biography

Carolyn Cooper is one of the most popular and richest Literary Scholar who was born on November 20, 1950 in Kingston, Kingston Parish, Jamaica. Carolyn Joy Cooper was born to Seventh-day Adventist parents in Kingston, Jamaica in 1950.

Cooper is also the author of the books Noises in the Blood, Orality and Gender and the “Vulgar Body” of Jamaican Popular Culture (1993), and Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture At Large (2004).

The Jamaica Gleaner listed Carolyn Cooper as sixth in their list of “The 10 Best-Dressed Men & Women Of 2011”.

On 6 August 2013, Jamaica’s 51st Independence Day, Professor Carolyn Cooper was awarded the national honour of the Order of Distinction in the rank of Commander (CD) “for outstanding contribution to Education”.

Cooper, a well-known media personality from Jamaica, is a Sunday Gleaner columnist. Cooper co-hosted Man and Woman Story with Dr Leahcim Semaj on the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation’s television channel in the 1990s. She co- hosted a program on public affairs, Question Time on CVM TV and, more recently Big People Sup’m, on PBC Jamaica.

Carolyn Cooper Net Worth

Carolyn Cooper is one of the richest Literary Scholar from Jamaica. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carolyn Cooper 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carolyn Cooper CD, a West Indian writer and scholar, was born 20 November 1950. She was born in Jamaica and is currently a professor of Literary and Cultural studies at the University of the West Indies Mona, Jamaica. She was an assistant professor at Atlantic Union College, South Lancaster, Massachusetts, from 1975 to 1980. In 1980, she was appointed lecturer in the Department of Literatures and English at the University of the West Indies.

She was awarded the Jamaica Scholarship (Girls) in 1968. She graduated from the University of the West Indies Mona with a Bachelor of Arts in English (B.A.). English) in 1971. In 1971, she was granted a Canadian International Development Agency fellowship, to study at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. She completed her master’s degree and her Ph.D. in 1977.

She was instrumental in establishing in 1994 the Reggae Studies Unit at the University of the West Indies, Mona, which has hosted numerous public lectures and symposiums featuring reggae/dancehall artists and other practitioners in the music industry in Jamaica and internationally such as Lady Saw, Vybz Kartel, Bounty Killer, Tony Rebel, Ninjaman, Louise Frazer-Bennett, Christine Hewett, Tanya Stephens, Gentleman and Queen Ifrica. Professor Cooper founded the annual Bob Marley Lecture in 1997. The Reggae Studies Unit has also convened academic conferences, including in 2008 the Global Reggae Conference, the plenary papers for which are collected in Global Reggae (2012), edited by Cooper and published by the University of the West Indies Press. With Dr Eleanor Wint, Cooper co-edited Bob Marley: The Man and His Music (2003), a selection of papers presented at the 1995 symposium that marked the reggae icon’s 50th birthday.

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Carolyn Ranked on the list of most popular Literary Scholar. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Jamaica. Carolyn Cooper celebrates birthday on November 20 of every year.