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Njelle W. Hamilton is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies and convener of UVa’s Greater Caribbean Studies Network. She specializes in twentieth and twenty-first century Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with particular focus on narrative innovations in the contemporary Caribbean 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.