Dr. Donahue is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies with a Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University. She specializes in Caribbean literature with a focus on the relationshibetween narrative, trauma, and sexual politics. Her teaching and research interests include Caribbean and post-colonial literature, Anglophone African literature, and women’s and gender studies. Her work has appeared in A Review of International English Literature, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in Gothic Fiction, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. She is currently working on a book-length study of the intersection of medicine, race, and empire in early Caribbean writing.