Nicole Aljoe

Director of Africana Studies Program; Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Professor Nicole N. Aljoe’s fields of specialization are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black Atlantic Literature, the Slave Narrative, Postcolonial Studies, and eighteenth-century British Novel. Professor Aljoe’s recent publications include “Caribbean Slave Narratives” in The Oxford Handbook of African American Slave Narratives. She is co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas, University of Virginia Press, 2014 and co-editor of Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream, Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.

Professor Aljoe’s current projects include:

Digital Humanities Projects

-Co-Director, Early Caribbean Digital Archive -Project Convener, Just Teach One: African American Print -Editor, Caribbeana: The Journal of the Early Caribbean Society -Early Black Boston Digital Almanac

Book Projects (in progress)

-“Do You Remember the Days of Slavery: The Neo-Slave Narrative in Contemporary Caribbean Cultural Production” -“Racing the Rise of the Novel: Black Lives and the 18th Century Novel in Europe”

Selected Publications

“The Long Song of the Caribbean Colonial Archive: Reading ‘The Memoir of Florence Hall’” American Literary History. (Forthcoming Winter 2020)
“The Narratives of Ashy and Sibell.” With Jerome Handler. In The Oxford African American Studies Center. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Section Editor, Vincent Carretta.
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018, Palgrave Macmillan). Co-editors Brycchan Carey (Kingston University, UK) and Thomas Krise (Pacific Lutheran University)
Beginnings: African American Literature 1700-1750. Editor. African American Literature in Transition 1700-2015. Series Editor Joycelyn Moody. (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)
“Transnational and Postcolonial Caribbean Afro-Caribbean Life Writing.” Cambridge History of African American Autobiography. (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
“The song of the unfettered slave”: 19th Century African American Writers on West Indian Emancipation.” Ed. Fagan, Ben and Joycelyn Moody (Ser. Ed.). African American Literature in Transition: 1830-50. (2017, Cambridge University Press,).
“First Steps: Just Teach One—Early African American Print.’ With Eric Gardner and Molly O’ Hardy. In Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Jessica DeSpain and Jennifer Travis. University of Illinois Press. 2018
“Obeah and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive.” With Elizabeth M. Dillon, Benjamin Doyle, and Elizabeth Hopwood. Atlantic Studies: (Special Issue) Obeah: knowledge, power and writing in the early Atlantic World. Eds. Toni W. Jaudon and Kelly Wisecup. 12.2 258-66.
“Black Slave Narratives as Popular Culture” In Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Vol. 5, U.S.Popular Print to 1860. Eds. Mary and Ron Zboray. (Oxford UP 2017)
“Caribbean Slave Narratives.” In The Oxford Handbook of African American Slave Narratives. Ed. John Ernest. New York: Oxford University Press (2013).
“Aria for Ethiopia: Pauline Hopkins’ Reclamations of Opera in Of One Blood.” African American Review (June 2013).
“Teaching Caribbean Slave Narratives.” In Approaches to Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. (Options for Teaching series) Ed. Supriya Nair. New York: MLA. (November 2012).
Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives of The British West Indies, 1709-1838. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. (January 2012).
“’Going to Law’: Legal Discourse and Testimony in Early West Indian Slave Narratives.” Early American Literature. 46.2 (June 2011): 351-381.

Education

PhD, Tufts University
BA, Vassar College
Contact

617.373.4543 n.aljoe@northeastern.edu
Address

463 Holmes Hall or 225A Renaissance Park
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Office Hours

Wednesdays 9:30-11:30am

Courses

Course catalog

Postcolonial Women Writers

ENGL/WMNS/CLTR 2451

Examines the literature and cultures of postcolonial nations in the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere through the lens of gender. Designed to familiarize students with the relationships between cultural paradigms associated with gender and transnational experiences of colonialism. Focuses on the variety of artistic strategies employed by writers to communicate the impacts of gender and sexuality on contemporary postcolonial themes such as neocolonialism, nationalism, and diaspora.
Writing Boston

ENGL 3375

Explores how writing shapes the life of, and life in, the city. Considers how Boston is constructed in a range of discourses and disciplines. Offers students an opportunity to research and write about the city and participate in a community-based writing project.