Njelle W. Hamilton

Njelle W. Hamilton serves as Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia. She maintains her office in 101A Minor Hall and can be contacted via email (nwh9f@virginia.edu) or phone (434-982-3573).

Her research centers on post-1970 Caribbean literary and cultural production, with expertise in narrative theory, sound studies, trauma and memory, Afrofuturism, and Caribbean popular music. She examines how Caribbean subjects engage with nation music amid memory disruptions from time, travel, or trauma, as explored in her monograph "Phonographic Memories" (Rutgers, 2019). Her current project "The Physics of Caribbean Time" analyzes time-bending novels through physics and Caribbean theoretical frameworks.