Associate Professor Daniel McNeil was recently interviewed for The Reading Lists website. The goal of the site is to interview the world’s leading experts in all areas, whether that be the world’s leading psychologists, philosophers or perhaps a freestyle rap battle champion. Experts are then given a chance to discuss their interests and recommend books that have a profound influence for them. Below is a short excerpt of the article “Daniel McNeil: Tools to Situate and Critique” which is available online.
Daniel McNeil joined Carleton University in 2014 to help enhance the university’s research, program development and teaching in Migration and Diaspora Studies. Before joining Carleton, Daniel McNeil served as the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University in Chicago and taught Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Hull and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. McNeil’s award-winning research contributes to the multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and antidisciplinary analysis of the African and Black Diaspora. He is also the author of Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs, which is the first volume in Routledge’s series on the African and Black Diaspora, and disrupts regimes of representation that frame “mixed-race” subjects as pathological objects or “new” national icons for the twenty-first century. Daniel McNeil is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Humanities and the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University. Please enjoy my interview with Daniel McNeil.