She received her PhD in English Literature and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. She co-edited two books: Before Windrush: Recovering a Black and Asian Literary History within Britain (2008) and Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (2010). Stitt is active in Caribbean studies and feminist mothering studies. She is currently working on a book project about the intersection of Caribbean women’s autobiographies and global histories of the slave trade and colonization. It is tentatively titled: Atlantic Autobiographies: Women Writing the Global as Personal Narrative.