Tara MacDonald has been appointed director of the Centre for Feminist Research (CFR) at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. The new research hub will serve as a collaborative space for scholars from all disciplines who are employing a feminist lens in their research work. In addition to leading the CFR, Dr. MacDonald will also serve as the university’s program coordinator for the bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in women and gender studies.
Dr. MacDonald’s career in academia began as a faculty member with the University of Amsterdam. She then spent a decade at the University of Idaho, where she chaired the English department and held an affiliate appointment in women and gender studies. She is the author of Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023) and The New Man, Masculinity, and Marriage in the Victorian Novel (Routledge, 2015).
Dr. MacDonald holds three degrees in English literature: a bachelor’s degree from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, a master’s degree from Queen’s University in Ontario, and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Quebec.