Alison Donnell

Who is Alison Donnell?

Alison Donnell is an academic, originally from the United Kingdom. She is Professor of Modern Literatures in English and Head of School of Literature and Languages at the University of Reading, where she also founded the research theme ‘Minority Identities: Rights and Representations’. Her primary research field is anglophone postcolonial literature, and she has been published widely on Caribbean and Black British literature. Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender and sexual identities and the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism.