Course Overview
It encourages the study of the Caribbean in an Atlantic context, emphasising African, North and South American, Asian and European influences from a comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective. The Centre is an umbrella unit of academics drawn from different departments. Students writing Caribbean dissertations supervised by these academics may be registered at the Centre or in the departments of the respective academics. Research Areas, The Centre-s particular areas of expertise include slavery and empire in the 18th and 19th centuries; Caribbean maritime worlds and networks; white identities; Caribbean writing in French and Spanish; postcolonial Caribbean texts; pre-1900 English Caribbean literatures; women's writing and feminist theory; disaster law and culture; slavery and law; the Haitian Revolution; postcolonial studies, world literature, literary and cultural theory; gender and slavery; enslaved runaways and maroons. Students will be supervised by faculty members with expertise in these areas. Regular term-time seminars in Caribbean Studies are run within the Faculty of Arts, and form a compulsory element of our research degrees.
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