Room 324, 3rd Floor East
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
Telephone: 662-2002 x 83089
Email: jarula.wegner@uwi.edu
I focus on Caribbean and African diasporic literatures and cultures especially on autobiography, cultural memory, and critical theory. Among my current projects are ‘Autobiography as Critique’, which analyses autobiographical acts since the eighteenth century and the ways in which these reconsider ideas of identity, society, and citizenship. Together with Dr Christian Alvarado (UC Davis, USA), I work on ‘Memories of Reparative Justice’ focusing on the role of memories in reparative justice discourses, and together with Prof Ruramisai Charumbira (Western University, Canada), Prof Jocelyn Martin (Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France), and Prof Mary McCarthy (Drake University, USA), I work on ‘Decolonizing the Study of Memory’ interrogating the possibilities and challenges of decolonizing the study of cultural memories.
From 2022 to 2025, I taught as a Hundred Talents Young Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Zhejiang University, China, and from 2020 to 2022, I taught as an Adjunct Professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. In 2021, I received my PhD at Goethe University with a doctoral thesis on ‘Transcultural Memory Constellations in Caribbean Carnivals: Literature and Performance as Critique’ (Magna Cum Laude). In the years 2016 to 2019, I was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (USA), the University of Warwick (England) and the University of the West Indies, St Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago).
In 2015, I received MA degrees in German Studies and English Studies as well as a BA degree in Chinese Studies from Goethe University Frankfurt. My master’s thesis in English Studies (Summa Cum Laude) received the Calliopean Prize for the best graduation thesis (including BA, MA and Teacher’s Diploma degrees) in the years 2015 to 2016.
I welcome research projects on Caribbean literature and cultures, African diasporic literatures and cultures, decolonial and postcolonial thought as well as autobiography, memory studies, gender studies and critical theory.
Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Education
UWI St. Augustine
Tel: (868) 662-2002 ext. 82031 / 84232
