F. Gordon Rohlehr (1942–2023) was Professor Emeritus at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. Unquestionably one of the Caribbean’s finest critics and thinkers, his work covers both literature and popular culture, particularly calypso. His publications include: Pathfinder: Black Awakening in The Arrivants of Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1981); Cultural Resistance and the Guyana State (1984); Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990); My Strangled City and Other Essays (1992); The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (1992); A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (2004); Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture (2007); Ancestories: Readings of Kamau Brathwaite’s Ancestors (2010); My Whole Life Is Calypso: Essays on Sparrow (2015); and Perfected Fables, Now: A Bookman Signs Off On Seven Decades (2019).