Charissa Granger

Charissa Granger is a musicologist and lecturer in cultural studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago) whose teaching and research focuses on Afro-Caribbean and diasporic music-making and performance as decolonising practices. After her BA in visual and performing arts at Northern Illinois University, and a master’s in cultural musicology at the UvA, Granger focused on world music performance practice, attending to how otherness is framed at world music festivals as a doctoral research project at the University of Göttingen. She was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie LEaDing Fellowship at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2018-2020.