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Her archival interests have also led to her development and directorship of a Doctoral Training Programme in Collections-Based Research at the University of Reading. This postgraduate training provides a pathway to a PhD, with a focus on museum and archives skills training and placement
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Donnell is the leading researcher of the Leverhulme Trust funded project Caribbean Literary Heritage: Recovering the Lost Past and Safeguarding the Future. She has been awarded a number of research grants and fellowships, including a visiting Hurst fellowship, Department of English,
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literature. Much of her academic work also focuses questions relating to gender and sexual identities and the intersections between feminism and postcolonialism.
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Her interests in literary histories and archives has led to an International Network led by a group of colleagues the University of Reading and funded by the
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Donnell, Alison (2003), "Visibility, violence and voice? Attitudes to veiling post-11 September", in Bailey, David A.; Tawadros, Gilane (eds.),
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Donnell, Alison (2010), "Visibility, violence and voice? Attitudes to veiling post-11 September", in Jones, Amelia (ed.),
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Donnell, Alison (2011). "Una Marson and the fractured subjects of modernity: writing across the Black Atlantic".
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Donnell, Alison (1999). "Dressing with a difference: Cultural representation, minority rights and ethnic chic".
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Donnell, Alison (November 2012). "Caribbean Queer: new meetings of place and the possible in Shani Mootoo's
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Donnell, Alison (1996). "Contradictory (W)omens?: Gender Consciousness in the Poetry of Una Marson".
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Donnell's essay "Visibility, Violence and Voice? Attitudes to Veiling Post-11 September" appeared in
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Donnell has co-edited two major textbooks in the field of anglophone Caribbean literature.
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Twentieth-century Caribbean literature: critical moments in Anglophone literary history
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and Gilane Tawadros. The essay gained attention because of its discussion of the
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Donnell, Alison (2002). "Nation and contestation: Black British writing".
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to help retain authors' papers and manuscripts with a particular focus on
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and the James M. Osborne Fellowship in English Literature and History,
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Donnell's academic publications on recovery research of the poetry of
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in the Caribbean, addressing the criminalization and intolerance of
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Donnell, Alison (June 2013). "V S Naipaul, a Queer Trinidadian".
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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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The Routledge companion to Anglophone Caribbean literature
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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
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She was a founding and joint editor of the quarterly
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After leaving secondary school, she was educated at
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Veil: veiling, representation, and contemporary art
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English Literature, University of Reading. 1179:The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature 467:(2nd ed.), London New York: Routledge, 410:The Routledge reader in Caribbean literature 405: 389:Representing lives: women and auto/biography 241:The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature 78:The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature 879:. Beinecke.library.yale.edu. Archived from 1391:Washington University in St. Louis fellows 1336:Academics of the University of East Anglia 757: 755: 706: 704: 702: 670: 1376:People educated at a United World College 387:Donnell, Alison; Polkey, Pauline (2000). 158:Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library 1230: 1214: 1174: 1099:. University of Reading. Archived from 967: 765:. University of Reading. Archived from 752: 714:. University of Reading. 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UWC
Atlantic College
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
University of East Anglia
University of Reading
anglophone
postcolonial literature
Caribbean
Black British
UWC
Atlantic College
Warwick University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
research fellowship
AHRC
queerness
homosexuality
heteronormativity
homophobia
CAISO
UWI
Leverhulme Trust
Diasporic Literary Archives
journal
Wasafiri
Una Marson
Peepal Tree

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