Donna McCormack

Dr. Donna McCormack is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde, specializing in postcolonial studies, queer theory, and medical humanities. She leads the British Academy-funded project Doing Disability Futures, which uses speculative arts to reimagine disability justice through collaborations with marginalized LGBTQ+ communities. Her research explores intersections of colonial violence, trauma, and bodily ethics across global literatures.

Key projects include the AHRC-funded Transplant Imaginaries and the Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health. She has published on topics such as organ transplantation narratives, monster theory, and sensory knowledge in trauma studies. McCormack’s monograph Vital Death: Organ Transplantation in Contemporary Fiction examines bodily ethics in biotechnological contexts. She is also involved in collaborative initiatives like the Monster Network, exploring anti-colonial and anti-racist resistance through evolutionary theory.

• Awards: Images of Research Recipient (2022)
• Professional Activities: Organized events including Death, Memory & Extinction (2024) and Being Human Arts Festival (2022)