Assistant Professor, Ph.D Tufts University
n.aljoe@neu.edu
Research areas and interests
Pre-20th century African Diaspora Literature, Narratives of slavery, Caribbean literature, Postcolonial literature, 18th Century British Novel
Selected Publications
Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indian Slaves, 1709-1838. In the “Urban Atlantics” series. Ed. Barbara Foy. (Forthcoming 1/2012 Palgrave MacMillan Press)
“‘Going to Law’: Legal Discourse and Testimony in Early West Indian Slave Narratives.” Early American Literature. 46.2: (June 2011)
“Caribbean Slave Narratives.” In The Oxford Handbook of African American Slave Narratives. Ed. John Ernest. New York: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming 2012)
“Teaching Caribbean Slave Narratives.” in Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. (Approaches to Teaching World Literature series) Ed. Supriya Nair. MLA: New York (Forthcoming 2012)
“West Indian Narratives of Slavery: Writing, Resistance and Abolition.” Arts Journal (2007)
“Zombie Testimony: Creole Religious Discourse in West Indian Slave Narratives” (in Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature. Ed. Robyn DeRosa. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)