Janelle Rodriques

Janelle Rodriques, PhD is an associate professor in the English department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She specialises in anglocreole Caribbean literature of the long twentieth century, particularly expressions of spirituality/religion, and what she sees as the literature’s ‘quarrel with humanity’ – dissatisfaction with Caribbean people’s various exclusions from the category of ‘human.’  She is the author of Narratives of Obeah in West Indian Literature: Moving through the Margins (Routledge, 2019) and has contributed to the Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (2025) and Cambridge University Press’ Caribbean Literature in Transition, Vol. 1: 1800s-1920s (2021). She is also published in Cultural Dynamics, Caribbean Quarterly and the Journal of West Indian Literature. 

Dr Rodriques has served as vice chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies (UK) and has been a member of that scholarly community for over a decade. She is currently working on a collaborative piece, ‘Caribbean Inheritances and Informal Archive Making: Intergenerational Intimacy as Method,’ as well as her second monograph, Waiting, Watching, Warning: Caribbean Literature’s Quarrel with Humanity.