Professor Donna Landry

(BA, Duke; MA, PhD, Virginia)
Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society

Professor On leave 2009-10
Phone: 01227 824745 Office: NC 4
Email: d.e.landry@kent.ac.uk  
Interests

Donna Landry has published widely on the literary and cultural history of Britain in the long eighteenth centuryand Romantic periods, focusing on the politics and aesthetics of the countryside, East-West relations, the Black Atlantic, imperialism, orientalism, labouring-class and women's writing, and animals as simultaneously cultural agents and commodities. She regularly crosses disciplinary boundaries and currently poaches in art history, ecology, landscape aesthetics, Ottoman studies, animal studies, and postcolonial theory. With Jonathan Lamb, Iain McCalman, and Vanessa Agnew, among others, she is involved in the 'Extreme and Sentimental History' project (see Criticism 46:3 [Summer 2004]). With Caroline Finkel, Gerald MacLean, Emir Mahir Başdoğan, Leyla Neyzi, Ercihan Dilari,and the botanist Andy Byfield, she is planning the Evliya Celebi Ride and Way, a project of historical re-enactment, leading to the establishment of an UNESCO European cultural route, The Evliya Çelebi Way. She is rhe recipient of a Leverhulme Study Abroad Fellowship for 2009-10 for the Evliya Çelebi project.

Research Supervision

Professor Landry has supervised research students in ecological and postcolonial theory, Black Atlantic writing, the Picturesque, gender studies and queer theory, labouring-class writing, women's writing, Orientalism, travel and travel writing (especially sea and desert studies), and animals in cultural history. She invites applications in these subjects and other aspects of the long eighteenth century and Romanticism.

Professional Activities

Professor Landry is a member of the editorial board of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, an advisory editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, The John Clare Society Journal and a consultant for many presses and journals. She is a member of the Modern Language Association, the British and American Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the British Syrian Society, the World Arabian Horse Organization, the Anglo-Turkish Society, the Anglo-Turkish Association, and the Turkish Area Studies Group.

Teaching
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Selected Publications
Books:
  • Globetrotters: Riding to Far Horizons with Evliya Çelebi and Lady Anne Blunt. (work in progress)
  • The Geopolitical Picturesque (work in progress)
  • Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture in 'Animals, History, Culture' series at The Johns Hopkins University Press (2008).
  • The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831 (Palgrave, 2001). Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 2002.
  • The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850, co-edited with Gerald MacLean and Joseph P. Ward (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
  • The Spivak Reader, co-edited with Gerald MacLean, with an introduction, headnotes, and a checklist of publications (Routledge, 1996).
  • Materialist Feminisms, co-authored with Gerald MacLean (Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
  • The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 (Cambridge University Press, 1990: paperback, 2005).
Some Recent Chapters and Articles:
  • 'Learning to Ride in Early Modern Britain, or, the Making of the English Hunting Seat', in The Culture of the Horse: Status, Discipline, and Identity in the Early Modern World, ed. Karen Raber and Treva J. Tucker (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 329-49.
  • The Bloody Shouldered Arabian and Early Modern English Culture', Criticism 46:1 (Winter 2004): 41-69.
  • 'Slavery and Sensibility: Phillis Wheatley within the Fracture', in Early Black British Writing: Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and Others, ed. Alan Richardson and Debbie Lee (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 377-95.
  • 'Lady Anne Blunt's Algerian Journals, 1873-74,' in Prof. Emerite Abdeljelil Temimi and Dr. Mohamed-Salah Omri, eds, The Movement of People and Ideas between Britain and the Maghreb (Tunis: Fondation Temimi, 2003), 91-102.
  • 'Green Languages? Women Poets as Naturalists in 1653 and 1807,' in 'Forging Connections,' Anne K. Mellor, Felicity Nussbaum, and Jonathan F. S. Post, eds, a special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly 63:4 (2002): 39-61.
  • 'Radical Walking,' openDemocracy.net (December 2001).
  • 'Horsy and Persistently Queer: Imperialism, Feminism, and Bestiality,' Textual Practice 15:3 (November 2001): 467-85.