Kevin MacDonnell
Assistant Professor, Literature
Contact
- Phone: (336) 758-4617
- Email:
- Office: C202 Tribble Hall
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 Works
Publications
- “Olaudah Equiano, Google, and the Infrastructure of Empire.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 58, no. 1 (2024), 49-56.
- “Figuring Jettison in Olaudah Equiano’s 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), 79-98.
Book Reviews
- “Review of Louis Kirk McAuley, The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704-1894.” Review of English Studies 76 (2025), 108-109.
- “Review of Peter DeGabriele, Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Modern Warfare.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 57, no. 4 (2024), 578-581.
Conference Presentations
- “‘Where many a garden flower grows wild’: William Jones’s Pastoral Bengal after the 1770 Famine.” South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Pinehurst, NC. 2026.
- “Bengal’s Famine Landscapes and the Anglo-Indian Pastoral.” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Savannah, GA. 2025.
- “Roundtable: Revisiting Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, ON. 2024.
- “Imperial Debris and the End of Space.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, ON. 2024.