Newcastle University

Introduction

In his teaching and research Daniel McNeil explores the shape and contours of a Black Atlantic – a transnational and intercultural formation forged, in the first instance, by the transatlantic slave trade. He has taught courses on media, culture and society (in institutions such as the University of Toronto, University of Hull, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, and Newcastle University), and published articles that draw on archival research and postcolonial theory (in journals such as Critical Arts: A Journal of North-South Cultural Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, Canadian Ethnic Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Journal of African American Studies, and Social Identities). His most recent book is Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs (Routledge, 2010), and he is currently completing a manuscript about Black cultural criticism inspired by the explorative, provocative and imaginative work of anti-colonial intellectuals in the 1950s and 60s.

McNeil currently holds the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professorship of African and Black Diaspora Studies at DePaul University in Chicago.

Qualifications

B.A. (Hons)  Oxford University, 2001
M.A. University of Toronto, 2002
Ph.D, University of Toronto, 2007

Previous Positions

Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto (2006-7)

Lecturer in Black and Minority studies, University of Hull (2007-10)

Memberships

Association of Cultural Studies; Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora; Black Canadian Studies Association; Caribbean Philosophical Association; Collegium for African American Research; Media, Communications  and Cultural Studies Association; Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association

Honours and Awards

• Ida B Wells-Barnett Professor of African and Black Diaspora Studies (2012)
• Newcastle University Research Award (2010)
• UK Prison Service Teaching Award (2007-10)
• University of Hull Development and Alumni Grant (2007)
• Craig Brown Traveling Fellowship (2005)
• University of Toronto Fellowship and Teaching Award (2003-2007)
• Robert F. Harney Research Award (2002)
• Canadian Rhodes Scholars’ Foundation Scholarship (2001-3)
• Massey College Award (2001)
• Hart Prize for Modern History (2000

Undergraduate Teaching 

• Introduction to Media Studies
• Introduction to Social and Cultural Issues
• Themes and Issues in Contemporary Media, Cultural and Communication Studies

Postgraduate Supervision
 

I am currently supervising 2 PhD dissertations: 

• Robin Bootes, 'Plug and Play: The Commodities and Cultures of Video Gaming, 1980-1993.'
• Tingting Li, 'Citizen Journalism in China: "Sina Weibo" and the Expansion of the Public Sphere.' 

I would be interested in supervising other students exploring themes and issues such as:

• Neoliberalism 
• Nostalgia
• Public Sphere  

I would also welcome supervising students pursuing research in the following fields: 

• Black Atlantic studies
• Critical Race studies
• Cultural History
• Diaspora studies
• Post/colonial studies 

Current research projects

• Frantz Fanon's legacy
• Metaphors and 'mixed-race' identities  
• Modern Slavery 
• Racial neoliberalism 

• McNeil D. ‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks. Darkmatter 2012, 9(1).
• McNeil D. 'The Rivers of Zimbabwe Will Run Red With Blood': Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club. Journal of Southern African Studies 2011, 37(4), 731-745.
• McNeil D. Black devils, white saints & mixed-race femme fatales: Philippa Schuyler and the winds of change. Critical Arts: A Journal of South-North Cultural Studies 2011, 25(3), 360-376.
• McNeil D. Liverpool: the capital of a Black Atlantic?. African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 2011, 4(1), 99-104.
• McNeil D. The Bridge: the life and rise of Barack Obama. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2011, 34(1), 180-181.
• McNeil D. Black with 'white blood'? To advertise, or not advertise, the race of Obama's mother. In: Mendible, Myra, ed. Race 2008: Critical Reflections on a Historic Campaign. Florida: BrownWalker Press, 2010, pp.99-114.
• McNeil D. Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture. Van Thompson, C. Journal of African American Studies 2010, 14(3), 378-379.
• McNeil D. Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the burden of race. Social Identities 2010, 16(6), 833-836.
• McNeil D. Race, Prejudice and UNESCO: the liberal discourse of Cyril Bibby and Michael Banton. History of Education Researcher 2010, 85(2), 74-84.
• McNeil D. Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs. New York: Routledge, 2010.
• McNeil D. The bridge-builders. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 2010, 11(4), 459-464.
• McNeil D. The Necktie and the Noose: African American combat in The Wire. Pop Matters 2010.
• McNeil D. Lennox Lewis and Black Atlantic Politics The Hard Sell. Journal of Sport and Social Issues 2009, 33(1), 25-38.
• McNeil D. White Negroes and The Wire. darkmatter 2009, (4), -.
• McNeil D. Ushering children away from a ‘light grey world’: Dr. Daniel Hill and his pursuit of a respectable Black Canadian community. Ontario History 2007, 99(1), 96-106.
• McNeil D. You wouldn't let it lie: mixed-race identities in Canada and the UK. In: mixedness and mixing. 2007, e-conference, intermix.org.uk: Intermix.
• McNeil D. American demands, African treasures, Mixed possibilities. Canadian Review of American Studies 2006, 36(2), 181-193.
• McNeil D. Finding a home while crossing boundaries: Black identities in Halifax and Liverpool. International Journal of Canadian Studies 2006, 31(1), 197-235.
• McNeil D. Re-mixing Canadian history. New Dawn: Journal of Black Canadian Studies 2006, 1(1), 63-69.
• McNeil D. Afro(Americo)centricity in Black (American) Nova Scotia. Canadian Review of American Studies 2005, 35(1), 57-85.
• McNeil D. Dancing Across Borders: Multiculturalism on screen. Bright Lights Film Journal 2004, (44).
• McNeil D. What’s a Black Critic to Do? Interviews, Profiles and reviews of Black Writers. Canadian Ethnic Studies 2004, 36(3), 162-163.
• McNeil D. Where I come from: South Asian life writing and Adjacencies: Minority Writing in Canada. Canadian Ethnic Studies 2004, 36(2), 158-160.