Kevin MacDonnell

Assistant Professor, Literature

Contact

Email: macdonk@wfu.edu

Degrees

• PhD, Rice University
• MA, St. John’s University
• BA, Virginia Tech

Areas of Interest

• Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• Empire and Colonialism
• Environmental Humanities
• Science and Technology Studies

Courses Taught at Wake Forest

• ENG 150 Literary Scientists
• ENG 265 British Literature to 1800
• ENG 335 The Rise of the Novel
• ENG 337 Black and Blue in the Literatures of Empire

Selected Publications

• “Google, Olaudah Equiano, and the Infrastructure of Empire.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58, no. 1 (2024): 49-56
• “Figuring Jettison in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 35, no. 3 (2023), 331-353.
• “Designing the Enlightenment Anthropocene.” In British Literature and Technology: 1600–1830. Eds. Aaron Hanlon and Kristin Girten. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Press (2023).
• “Beneath Defoe’s Island: Imperial Geopolitics and the Inorganic Economy in Robinson Crusoe.” Philological Quarterly 99, no. 1 (2020), 1-24.