Alison Donnell | |
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Born | United Kingdom |
Education | UWC Atlantic College |
Alma mater | University of Warwick |
Occupation | Academic |
Notable work | The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature (1996); The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2011) |
Alison Donnell is an academic, originally from the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Modern Literatures and Head of the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.[1] She was previously Head of School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading, where she also founded the research theme "Minority Identities: Rights and Representations".[2][3] Her primary research field is anglophone postcolonial literature,[4] and she has been published widely on Caribbean and Black British literature.[5] Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender and sexual identities and the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism.[6][7]