Biography
Njelle (Njara) Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia, and the book review editor of Anthurium Caribbean Studies Journal. The author ofPhonographic Memories: Popular Music and the Contemporary Caribbean Novel (Rutgers 2019), Hamilton specializes in 20th and 21st century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative theory and fiction craft. Her essays on sound studies, trauma theory, and the physics of time have appeared in Anthurium, Journal of West Indian Literature, sx salon, and Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature, while her short fiction has been published in Centripetal and Pree Lit.
She is working on two projects:
- (As Njelle): A monograph tentatively titled The Physics of Caribbean Time,” which embraces storytelling as method and form to explore the alternative clocks and narrative forms that might more accurately render how Caribbean people experience time
- (As Njara): A novel that’s part coming of age tale and part alternate history of reggae.