Geoffrey MacDonald

Geoffrey MacDonald (he/him) teaches postcolonial literature and theory with a specialization in the anglophone Caribbean. His teaching emphasizes active reading, effective communication, and the appreciation of literary form. In research, he focuses on the connections between literature and social justice, including decolonial thinking, intersectionality, gender and sexuality studies, and Indigenous critical theory. He served as an associate editor at Caribbean Conjunctures, the journal of the Caribbean Studies Association. His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, Modern Drama, Radical Americas, and the collection Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean (Routledge, 2018).

Publications:

“Toward an Intersectional Literary Criticism: Cross-Identity Representations, Social Location, and Shani Mootoo’s Intervention.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 59, no. 2, 2023, pp. 172-85, https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2161832

“Justice, Healing, Resurgence: Spiritual Decolonization in Lee Maracle’s Celia’s Song.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 54, no. 2, 2023, pp. 139-56. https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2023.0016

“Subject/ive Bodies: The Resistance Poetics of Chrystos and Mahadai Das.” Radical Americas, vol. 6, no. 1, 2021, p.17,  https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2021.v6.1.017.

“An Aching House: Domestic Representations of Coloniality in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Coups and Calypsos.” Modern Drama, vol. 62, no 3, Fall 2019, pp. 320-37, https://doi.org/10.3138/md.62.3.0990r

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

“Shadows Pass the Surface: Decolonial (Re)Configurations of Indigenous Presence in Merle Collins’s Colour of Forgetting.” Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Politics, and Aesthetics, edited by Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph T. Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, and Julia Roth, Routledge, 2018, pp. 40-55.

Current Research Projects:

Not So Distant: Intersectional Readings of Cross-Identity Representation in Caribbean Fiction

“Of Social and Economic Rights: Sindiwe Magona Reframes South African Cultural Memory” (article)

“Cross-Identity Representation as Literary Solidarity in Patricia Powell’s Novels” (article)