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Alison Donnell

(she, her)
Professor of Modern Literatures in English, University of East Anglia

I have published widely in the field of Caribbean and Black British literature, with significant contributions to the fields of literary history and culture, recovery research of women authors, and Caribbean literary archives.

My recent works reflects my ongoing commitment to expanding Caribbean literary histories. I am the General Editor of Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-2020 (3 volumes) and my team project, Caribbean Literary Heritage: recovering the past and safeguarding the future was funded by the Leverhulme Trust: www.caribbeanliteraryheritage.com.

My latest monograph Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the literary imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean was published in Rutgers’ Critical Caribbean Series in 2022.

My essay 'Looking Back, Looking Forward Revisiting the Windrush Myth' was published in the Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Modern Literatures in English , University of East Anglia

Education

  • 1994 
    University of Warwick , PhD Caribbean Studies