Njelle W. Hamilton is an associate professor in the English and African-American and African Studies departments at the University of Virginia. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, especially the narrative innovations on the Caribbean postcolonial novel.

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 current project, tentatively titled Caribbean Chronotropes: The Physics, Poetics, and Politics of Time in Contemporary Fiction, reads recent time-bending novels through the lens of physics, phenomenology, and Caribbean theory.

Her essays on sound studies, trauma theory and the physics of time have appeared in Anthurium, Journal of West Indian Literature, Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature, and SX Salon. She serves on the editorial board of Caribbean in Transit: An Arts Journal, and is the book review editor for Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal.