Professor Donna Landry
School of English - Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature
About
Donna has published widely on animals as simultaneously cultural agents and commodities, Anglo-Ottoman and East-West relations, travel writing, labouring-class writing, women’s writing, the Black Atlantic, imperialism, Orientalism, and the politics and aesthetics of the countryside. She regularly crosses disciplinary boundaries and currently poaches in Ottoman studies, environmental history and ecology, migration studies, landscape aesthetics, postcolonial theory, and comparative imperial history. Her 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 13th October 2020