Alison Donnell

Alison Donnell
Born
United Kingdom
EducationUWC Atlantic College
Alma materUniversity of Warwick
OccupationAcademic
Notable workThe 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]

  1. ^ "Professor Alison Donnell - UEA". www.uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Minority Identities: Rights and Representations". University of Reading. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  3. ^ "Preserving & Promoting access to Literary Archives". Diasporic Archives. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  4. ^ *Donnell, Alison (2011). The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415827942.
  5. ^ "Staff Profile: Professor Alison Donnell, Department of English Language and Literature". University of Reading. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Alison Donnell: Quiet Revolutions". Barnard Center for Research on Women. 16 February 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  7. ^ "Alison Donnell Research". University of Reading. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 26 October 2013.