Dr. Donahue is an Associate Professor of Practice of Africana Studies with a Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University. She specializes in Caribbean literature with a focus on the relationship between narrative, trauma, and sexual politics. Her teaching and research interests include Caribbean and post-colonial literature, Anglophone African literature, and women’s and gender studies. Her work has appeared in A Review of International English Literature, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Gothic Fiction, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. She is currently working on a book-length study of the intersection of medicine, race, and empire in early Caribbean writing.
Degrees:
Ph.D., 2014, Literature, Florida State University
M.A., 2009, Literature, University of Maryland
B.A., 2005, English, Salisbury University
Research Interests:
Caribbean and post-colonial literature
Anglophone African literature
African American literature and culture
Caribbean folklore
Gender, bodies, and sexuality
Cultural politics of reproduction
Women’s literature and feminist theory
Courses Taught:
AFAS 200- Introduction to Africana Studies
AFAS 220- Introduction to African American Studies
AFAS 230- Introduction to African Literature
AFAS 304A- The Social Construction of Whiteness
AFAS 310- Afro-Latin American Literature
AFAS 314- Caribbean Literature and Culture
AFAS 342- Writers, Women and the Gods
AFAS 423- Topics in Caribbean Culture, Literature and Identity