Kevin MacDonnell

Dr. Kevin MacDonnell is Assistant Professor of Literature in Wake Forest University's Department of English. His research examines intersections of literature, empire, and environment in eighteenth-century British contexts, with particular focus on colonial infrastructures and environmental humanities.

His courses include:

• 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

Publications (2020-2024) demonstrate consistent exploration of empire-colonial dynamics through frameworks of infrastructure studies, material ecologies, and digital humanities. Recent work examines digital colonialism's connections to historical imperial structures and ecocritical readings of maritime literature.