Dr Donahue Interview

The instructor that I choose to interview was Dr. Jennifer Donahue. She was my instructor last semester for my African Studies course. Dr. Jennifer Donahue is an Assistant Professor with a Ph.D. in Literature from Florida State University. Donahue research and work focusses in present Caribbean literature with an emphasis on the connection between history, suffering, and sexual political beliefs. For her exposition, she expanded her research into a volume script designated Trauma, Shame and Silence in Caribbean Women’s Writing. The writing in it disputes that body and sexual politics behave as systems of micro trauma that stimulate circumstances fluctuate from shame to psychosis. Donahue investigation and educational interests comprise of Caribbean

and post-colonial works, Anglophone African writing, as well as gender and women’s studies. Some of the work she’s done has emerged in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Restoration, Studies in Gothic Fiction, and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research. Another book length project that she’s doing investigates body alteration and sexual suppression in twenty first century Afro-diasporic works. The reason I decided to interview Donahue was because her course taught me a lot about the main ideological, political, and environmental challenges that are handled by individuals of African, and the development of those trials through history. Like rising population, poverty, a big issue on the African continent directs to a bigger corruption of natural resources and this deteriorates the environmental difficulties with the deprivation of agriculture and usable areas and mishandling of obtainable water resources. Energy use in sub-Saharan Africa contrasts intensely and overlooks fuel intake. The consumption of lumber for petrol is prevalent in both the countryside and city settings and creates a large amount of the overall energy use, which eventually brings another issue, which is deforestation. The progression of deforestation has not only added in diminishing the ozone layer, but furthermore enhanced the course of global warming.