The Centre promotes research and publications, making postgraduate students aware of the Caribbean and of the growing importance of Caribbean culture in Britain. The emphasis of the Centre’s work is comparative, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary and there is an active seminar and visiting speakers’ programme. The Centre has particular strengths in the teaching of Caribbean history and literary culture and also has interests in the sociology of the region and the Caribbean diaspora.

The Centre is an umbrella unit of academics from different departments. Students doing 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 Indo-Caribbean literature; colonial and postcolonial literature; modern Caribbean writing; early modern prose and poetry; slavery and emancipation; the history of the Caribbean before the 20th century; slavery and childhood; and black Britain. Students will be supervised by faculty members with expertise in these areas.

Research Degrees

Standard Duration:

• MPhil: 2 years full-time, 5 years part-time

• PhD: 3 years full-time, 5 years part-time

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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