Ms Janelle Rodriques

BIOGRAPHY

Janelle is a doctoral student at Newcastle University, writing on fictional representations of Obeah (a syncretic spiritual, religious and medicinal system developed in the Caribbean by enslaved Africans) in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Her research interests include theories of the novel, identity politics, nationalism in literature and literary activism, African spirituality, race and representation, travel writing, inherited trauma, creolisation, hybridity and globalisation.