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  • Petal Samuel
  • 2024-25
  • American Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill-NC)
  • Post Doctorate
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  • Language & Literature
  • Caribbean literary studies
  • The Quiet Zone: The Colonial Sensorium, Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance
  • Chapel Hill
  • NC
  • United States
  • Petal Samuel is an assistant professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book, The Quiet Zone: The Colonial Sensorium, Caribbean Expressive Cultures, and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance, examines the ways the naturalization of “quiet” as a sonic, psychic, and aesthetic ideal operated in league with colonial regimes of racial, gendered, and sexual surveillance and discipline in the Caribbean and its diasporas.