Hadley Galbraith

Hadley Galbraith is a Francophone postcolonial scholar specializing in 20th and 21st century writing, film, and performance from the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. She also works on artists from Sub-Saharan Africa. In her research, she is interested in the intersections of memory, the body, and performance as they contribute to the deconstruction, construction, and reconstruction of individual and collective identities. Her current book project focuses on the memory of transatlantic slavery; it pursues the idea that the experiential knowledge of bodies, bodily repertoires, and representations that foreground the two have crucial roles to play in preserving and unearthing knowledge about the past that has never been preserved in an archive or oral histories. At the center of her critical framework is the innovative work of dancer and scholar Lénablou and the Guadeloupean performance tradition known as gwoka. Professor Galbraith received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Iowa.