Staff Profile:Dr Alison Donnell

Name:

Dr Alison Donnell

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

Within the department I convene modules in:

• Black British Fiction
• Postcolonial Women's Writing
• Women's Writing and Feminist Theory

I have also contributed to courses in:

• Criticism and Theory

Areas of Interest:

My primary research interest is postcolonial writings and theory, in particular Caribbean literature and black British writings. I have also developed a research interest in those areas in which I teach, particularly feminist theory and its intersection with postcolonial theory. I continue to have a strong interest in women's writing.

 

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Recent publications reflect my interests and include:

• Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary and Critical History (Routledge: London, 2006)
• 'FEELING GOOD? LOOK AGAIN!: Feel good movies and the vanishing points of liberation in Deepa Mehta's Fire and Gurinder Chadha's Bend it Like Beckham', Journal of Creative Communications (Nov 07)

I have been Joint Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies since the journal's inception a decade ago in 1998 and serve on the Editorial Board of The Journal of West Indian Literature.

I have also published many articles and chapters on Caribbean and postcolonial writings. As well as several edited collections, including

• Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture (ed.) (Routledge, 2002)
• [co-edited ]The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature, Routledge (1996)

I would welcome Ph.D. students in any of the above areas, and have recently supervised postgraduate work on Caribbean women's poetry, the landscape in Caribbean writings, cross-cultural Indian/African relations in Caribbean literature and Caribbean queer narratives.