Jennifer Lynn Donahue
- Associate Professor of Practice, Africana Studies
Contact
Degrees
- Ph.D. Literature
- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Awards
- Faculty of the Month
- National Association of College and University Residence Halls, Spring 2015 (Award Finalist)
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Donahue, J. L. (2020). Taking Flight: Caribbean Women Writing from Abroad. University Press of Mississippi.
Journals/Publications
- Donahue, J. L. (2019). “Consuming the Caribbean: Tourism, Sex Tourism, and Land Development in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s Here Comes the Sun". A Review of International English Literature.
- Donahue, J. L. (2014). Moving Beyond the Fuku: Exploring Intersections between the Folkloric and Feminine in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Studies in Gothic Fiction, 3(2), 52-63.
- Donahue, J. L. (2014). The Ghost of Annie Palmer: Denials of Agency for Jamaica's "White Witch of Rose Hall". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 49(2), 243-56.
Presentations
- Donahue, J. L. (2019, January 2019). “A Terrible Prison: Leprosy, Miscegenation, and Empire in Frieda Cassin’s With Silent Tread". Modern Language Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2019, June 2019). “James Grainger’s Cultivation of the Sugar-cane". Caribbean Studies Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2016, April). Don’t Let the Dove’s Egg Crack: Revolution, Voodoo, and Sexual Agency in Isabel Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea. College English Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2016, April). Sounding the Alarm: Soraya Miré and Abraham Verghese’s Narration of the ‘Gift'. African Literature Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2016, December). “‘The Devil is a Woman in a Purple Dress:’ Violence as Vindication in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names". African Studies Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2015, March). A Volatile State of Being: The Impact of Sexual Politics in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. Southeastern Women’s Studies Association.
- Donahue, J. L. (2015, May). She Looked Something of the Sea: The Consequences of Unnatural Love in Tiphanie Yanique’s Land of Love and Drowning. Caribbean Studies Association.
Reviews
- Donahue, J. L. (2017. Review of New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849..
