Najnin Islam

Najnin Islam serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, Waterbury campus (office: WTBY Room 220). Her research centers on postemancipation labor economies in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean world, with a current project examining race and caste in the Anglophone Caribbean during indentureship.

Her scholarly focus spans critical interdisciplinary domains:

• Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Caribbean Literature
• South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literature
• Global Anglophone Literature
• Theories of the Archive
• Race and Caste

Published in journals including Small Axe and Interventions, her 10 articles (2012–2025) reveal persistent thematic engagement with indentured labor systems, creolization processes, and diasporic identity formation. Key trends highlight intersections of racial capitalism, colonial care structures, and literary representations of precarity across South Asian and Caribbean contexts, emphasizing historical continuity in post-emancipation societies.

Office hours are held Mondays and Wednesdays 1:30–2:30pm with additional appointments available.