Alison Donnell

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 lead a major research 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.

In 2025, I published Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean which recovers writers and works that have long been erased from the Caribbean canon, restoring a much fuller literary history.

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.