Kevin E. O'Donnell
PhD, Professor of Literature and Language
East
Tennessee State University
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PUBLICATIONS
(selected, miscellaneous)
last update: July 2011
Samples of songs
and poems: reverbnation.com/steelbluesky;
reverbnation.com/kodpoetry.
"'Pioneers of
Spoliation': Woolson's Horace Chase [1893] and the Role of Magazine
Writing in the Gilded-Age Development of the South." Witness
to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South,
1873-1894. Jackson: U Press of
Mississippi, 2011. 266-282.
Historic
Photos of Appalachia. Nashville:
Turner Publishing Co, 2009.
"The Expanding Range of Mountaintop Removal Literature: Two New Books." Journal of Appalachian Studies 15, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 2009): p213-18.
"Coal Country,
in Black and White: Photographs, 1968-1973, by Jeanne Rasmussen (1934-1992)."
A show in Gallery C at ETSU's Carroll Reece Museum, June 3-August 28, 2008.
"Bradford Torrey (1843-1912)." Early American Nature Writers. Ed. Daniel Patterson, et al. Westport Ct: Greenwood Press, 2008. 365-373.
"Environment." Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Ed. Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 2006. 100-149. Co-edited this 32-article section with Don Davis. Also authored or co-authored numerous articles, for this and other sections, including "Environment--Overview," "Travel Writing," "William Bartram."
"Book
and Periodical Illustration [in America, 1820-1870]." American
History through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and
Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 144-48.
Seekers
of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. U of
Tennesee Press, 2004.
"The Artist in the Garden: George Cooke and the Ideology of Fine Arts Painting in Antebellum Georgia." Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, Macon GA, Mercer University Press 2004. 73-97.
"Persimmons." One of numerous essays I wrote in 2000-2001
for a now-defunct environmental radio show, this piece is posted at
persimmonpudding.com, a fun site devoted to Diospyros
virginiana.