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August 04, 2020

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Professors Charlotte Rogers (Spanish) and Njelle Hamilton (English, AAS), and postdoctoral fellow Ali Glassie, recently published a special discussion section on Rita Indiana's cli-fi novel Tentacle in http://smallaxe.net/sxsalon, the online arm of Small Axe Caribbean studies journal. Read the introduction and essays here:

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May 13, 2020

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Routes, Writing, Reggae

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April 17, 2020

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In the Fall of 2020, UVA will welcome many new graduate students with interests in Caribbean Studies. The Graduate School's new Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Literatures, Arts, and Cultures offers accepted students additional stidpends, resources, and mentoring in Caribbean Studies.

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Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts.

Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean...
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Anthurium Caribbean Studies Journal invites your submission of book reviews for a special review issue on “Queer Caribbean Studies,” scheduled for Spring/Summer 2021. If there’s a recently published (2017 to present) work of scholarship, fiction, non-fiction, or poetry that you would like to review, please contact Njelle Hamilton (njhamilton@virginia.edu) by Jan 15.

Due to COVID-related postal issues we’ll most likely request review copies (or electronic versions) directly from presses to you, so the earlier you contact me the sooner you can get going. If you already have a copy of the title, please let me know that as well. Reviews will be due March 15th.

Timeline:

Jan 15, 2021: email njhamilton@virginia.edu expressing interest; indicate the work to be reviewed and whether you already have a copy or will need a copy sent to you.

March 15, 2021: Drafts due (kindly include the names, affiliations and email of two potential reviewers). Author guidelines here.

April 30, 2021: Peer review comments returned to contributors.

May 15, 2021: Revised essays due.

Convened and moderated by Matthew Chin, featuring: Vidyaratha Kisson, Larry Chang, Donna Smith, Glen McDaniels, and Jennifer Ffrench-Parker.

RSVP to Matthew Chin for event details (mc4hz@virginia.edu).

Oct 16, 12-1pm. Next GCSN virtual meetup:

“Word | Sound | Power”—A Caribbean Literary Reading/Reasoning with Lauren Alleyne and Njelle Hamilton.

The Greater Caribbean Studies Network at UVA presents a literary reading/
reasoning with two Caribbean word-sound-artists: award-winning
Trinidadian poet, Lauren Alleyne, and Jamaican literary scholar Njelle
Hamilton, reading from their creative work and reasoning about writing and
sounding the Caribbean.

Moderated by Njelle Hamilton, and featuring Kaymara Barrett, Brandon O'Brien, and Suzan Palumbo. Panel info and link TBC. Contact njhamilton@virginia.edu.

Anne Garland Mahler discusses her recent book for NYU’s Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium. Contact Anne Garland at agm7b@virginia.edu

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