Professor Donna Landry
School of English - Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature
About
I have published widely on and continue to investigate horses in history, animals as simultaneously cultural agents and commodities, Anglo-Ottoman and East-West relations, labouring-class and women’s writing, the Black Atlantic, travel writing, imperialism, Orientalism, and the politics and aesthetics of the countryside. I regularly cross disciplinary boundaries and currently poach in Ottoman studies, art history, ecology, landscape aesthetics, postcolonial theory, and Middle Eastern and military history. My latest book, Noble Brutes explored how blood horses imported from the Ottoman empire revolutionised British equestrian culture, inspiring Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travels and George Stubbs’s sporting art.
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Last updated 15th October 2020