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Dr Charlotte Hammond
(she/her)
Lecturer in French Studies
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
My current research examines the transnational textile industry and secondhand clothing cultures in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with a focus on worker solidarity and creative resistance. I am currently writing my second monograph titled Material Mawonaj: Haitian Women Workers, Secondhand Clothing Cultures and Creative Mobilities in the Caribbean, under contract with Bloomsbury. This book investigates global textile industries and secondhand clothing systems in the Caribbean region and challenges their sustainment of multiple and intersecting dimensions of power, including racial, gender and environmental inequalities.
More broadly, my research interests centre on Francophone Caribbean studies, Caribbean cultural studies and decoloniality. I am particularly interested in the history and legacies of colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean and how their afterlives are explored and reimagined through a wide range of visual and material culture, including film, art, performance, textiles and dress.
I am committed to doing public engagement work and with Coleg Menai and Black Heritage Walks Network have collaborated on a creative heritage project that explores local histories of woollen production in Wales and their connections to global histories of Atlantic slavery, trade and empire. This work has resulted in the publication of Woven Histories of Welsh Wool and Slavery, a bilingual free ebook, published in 2023 with Common Threads Press.
My first book Entangled Otherness: Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean was published with Liverpool University Press in 2018. It was shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize for the best book in French Studies published in 2018.
I also have publications in the Journal of Haitian Studies, Women and Performance, Fashion Theory, TEXTILE, Contemporary French Civilization and the Journal of Material Culture..
Publication
2024
- Hammond, C. 2024. Re/assembling the imaginary: Counter-narratives of Haiti’s transnational textile industry. Textile 22(3), pp. 547-560. (10.1080/14759756.2023.2242118)
- Hammond, C. 2024. Weaving stories of Wales, textiles and slavery through art. In: Crowther, L. ed. British Local History and the Black Atlantic. Warwick District Council, pp. 11-20.
2023
- Hammond, C. 2023. Straw Craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao. Journal of Material Culture 28(4), pp. 515-538. (10.1177/13591835231210689)
- Hammond, C. ed. 2023. Woven histories of Welsh wool and slavery. Common Threads Press.
2021
- Hammond, C. and McGregor, A. 2021. O is for Orientalism: the dynamics of the sexual tourist gaze in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005). Contemporary French Civilization 46, pp. 27-47. (10.3828/cfc.2021.2)
2020
- Hammond, C. 2020. Stitching time: artisanal collaboration and slow fashion in post-disaster Haiti. Fashion Theory 24(1), pp. 33-57. (10.1080/1362704X.2018.1441001)
- Hammond, C. 2020. “The question was whether to die of hunger or coronavirus”: garment factories reopen in Haiti despite fears. [Online]. haitisupportgroup.org: Available at: https://haitisupportgroup.org/garment-factories-reopen-haiti-covid19/
2019
- Hammond, C. 2019. Le mariage burlesque: Carnival cross-dressing in the French Caribbean. The Conversation 2019(Mar 5)
2018
- Hammond, C. 2018. Entangled otherness: cross-gender fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
2017
- Hammond, C. 2017. Footnotes to the Ghetto Biennale 2017 / Nòt sou pye a Geto Byenal. In: Gordon, L. ed. Ghetto Biennale / Geto Byenal 2009-2015. Port-au-Prince: Central Books, pp. 84-100.
- Hammond, C. 2017. A cross-dressed Kanaval. Women and Performance 27(2)
2016
- Hammond, C. 2016. Decoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Haiti. In: Joseph, C. L. et al. eds. Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective. Lexington Books
2012
- Hammond, C. 2012. "Children" of the gods: Filming the private rituals of Haitian vodou. Journal of Haitian Studies 18(2), pp. 64-82.
Articles
- Hammond, C. 2024. Re/assembling the imaginary: Counter-narratives of Haiti’s transnational textile industry. Textile 22(3), pp. 547-560. (10.1080/14759756.2023.2242118)
- Hammond, C. 2023. Straw Craft, imperial education and ethnographic exhibitions as tightly braided sites of gender production in Haiti and Curaçao. Journal of Material Culture 28(4), pp. 515-538. (10.1177/13591835231210689)
- Hammond, C. and McGregor, A. 2021. O is for Orientalism: the dynamics of the sexual tourist gaze in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005). Contemporary French Civilization 46, pp. 27-47. (10.3828/cfc.2021.2)
- Hammond, C. 2020. Stitching time: artisanal collaboration and slow fashion in post-disaster Haiti. Fashion Theory 24(1), pp. 33-57. (10.1080/1362704X.2018.1441001)
- Hammond, C. 2019. Le mariage burlesque: Carnival cross-dressing in the French Caribbean. The Conversation 2019(Mar 5)
- Hammond, C. 2017. A cross-dressed Kanaval. Women and Performance 27(2)
- Hammond, C. 2012. "Children" of the gods: Filming the private rituals of Haitian vodou. Journal of Haitian Studies 18(2), pp. 64-82.
Book sections
- Hammond, C. 2024. Weaving stories of Wales, textiles and slavery through art. In: Crowther, L. ed. British Local History and the Black Atlantic. Warwick District Council, pp. 11-20.
- Hammond, C. 2017. Footnotes to the Ghetto Biennale 2017 / Nòt sou pye a Geto Byenal. In: Gordon, L. ed. Ghetto Biennale / Geto Byenal 2009-2015. Port-au-Prince: Central Books, pp. 84-100.
- Hammond, C. 2016. Decoding Dress: Vodou, Cloth and Colonial Resistance in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Haiti. In: Joseph, C. L. et al. eds. Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective. Lexington Books
Books
- Hammond, C. ed. 2023. Woven histories of Welsh wool and slavery. Common Threads Press.
- Hammond, C. 2018. Entangled otherness: cross-gender fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean. Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Websites
- Hammond, C. 2020. “The question was whether to die of hunger or coronavirus”: garment factories reopen in Haiti despite fears. [Online]. haitisupportgroup.org: Available at: https://haitisupportgroup.org/garment-factories-reopen-haiti-covid19/
- Hammond, C. 2024. Re/assembling the imaginary: Counter-narratives of Haiti’s transnational textile industry. Textile 22(3), pp. 547-560. (10.1080/14759756.2023.2242118)
Research
My current research project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, examines the textile and garment industries in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is an ethnographic study of how women garment workers, secondhand clothing traders and dressmakers resist and reconfigure global markets through their local organisation and entrepreneurial strategies.
My interdisciplinary doctoral research, fully funded by the AHRC, examined expressions of cross-dressing and gender performativity in contemporary Francophone Caribbean visual and performative cultures, focusing on the islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haiti and their diasporic communities in metropolitan France. The blog has more information on this research project. My monograph based on this project, entitled Entangled Otherness: Cross-gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean, was published with Liverpool University Press in 2018.
Teaching
Undergraduate modules
Global Narratives of Colonialism, Slavery, and their Legacies (co-convenor)
Of Oceans and Islands: Ecology and Environment in Francophone Arts and Literature (co-convenor)
French Cultures in Context - 'Identity'
National and Global Perspectives on France
Final year French dissertation module convenor
Postgraduate modules
MA Global Cultures dissertation module convenor
MA Theorizing Global Cultures - Postcolonial Theory
MA Research Methods and Practice
Biography
I joined Cardiff School of Modern Languages in 2014 after completing my PhD in the departments of Drama and French at Royal Holloway, University of London. During my PhD I spent a year conducting research and teaching at l’Université des Antilles et de la Guyane in Martinique. Whilst in the Caribbean I was a participating artist at the 2011 Ghetto Biennale, held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I have an MA in Theatre Design and in 2013 worked as a visiting lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama teaching Postcolonial Theatre. Prior to my doctoral studies, I have worked in the areas of costume design and video editing.
Committees and reviewing
Secretary of the Haiti Support Group
Reviewer, Palgrave Macmillan, Edinburgh University Press.
Supervisions
I welcome applications from PhD students interested in the areas of:
- Francophone Caribbean literature, film and art.
- Slavery and its legacies
- Textiles and dress
- Modern forms of slavery in garment supply chains
- Fashion and environmental justice
Current supervision
Past projects
Madeleine Phillips, 'From Linguistic Maronaz to Official Language: the Recognition and Officialization of the Creole Language through Public Education in La Réunion between 1970 and 2022'
