Education

• Ph.D. Brandeis University
• M.A. Brandeis University
• B.A. University of the West Indies, Mona

Research Areas

Caribbean Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Sound Studies; Afrofuturism/ Sci-Fi/ History of Science; Time Studies; Trauma and Memory; The Novel.

Biography

Njelle W. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies. She specializes in post-1970 Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative theory and novel craft. Her first monograph, Phonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Rutgers, 2019), investigates how Caribbean subjects turn to nation music when personal and cultural memory have been impacted by time, travel, or trauma. Her essays on sound studies, time studies, trauma theory, narrative theory, have appeared in Anthurium, Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe, and beyond. Her current project, tentatively titled The Physics of Caribbean Time, reads recent time-bending novels through the lens of physics and Caribbean theory.