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Dr. Nadia W-Charles
nadiawc@arizona.edu
Phone
520-626-1135
Office
Learning Services Building
Office Hours
Thursdays 3pm - 5pm
W-Charles, Nadia
Assistant Professor

Dr. W-Charles taught Caribbean and Media Studies in the department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at The University of the West Indies (UWI) for nine years. She has worked as a Research and Brand Insights Specialist in Jamaica for three years employing interdisciplinary research techniques to collate consumer preferences and guide innovative brand campaigns. Dr. W-Charles completed a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies with a focus in Black Nationalism and Jamaican music scenes at UWI. She also earned an M.Sc. in Cyberpsychology with an emphasis on online research methods at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include Caribbean consumerism, music scenes, Black Nationalism and the politics of difference.

Currently Teaching

AFAS 150B1 – Contemporary Afro Brazil

This course challenges historical and contemporary popular culture perceptions of Brazil as a tourist haven and paradise replete with festivities and beautiful beaches while also reinforcing an interdisciplinary and multiple perspective approach to the study of Afro-Brazilian people's history, cultures, arts, music, dance, cinema, cuisines, and sports, and the protracted systemic discrimination and exclusion from political and economic rights, as well as the racial and educational inequalities and disparities that Brazilians of African descent have experienced over the years.

AFAS 314 – Caribbean Literature and Culture (West Indies)

The course examines how literature captures the multifaceted social, cultural, and political life of the Caribbean region.