Kevin E. O'Donnell
PhD, Professor of English
in the Department of Literature and Language
and Director of Environmental
Studies Minor
East Tennessee State
University
[ Contact Info and Class Schedule ] [ Publications and Projects ]
PUBLICATIONS AND
PROJECTS
(selected, miscellaneous)
last update: August 2023
"Dysart Woods:
In the middle of an environmental sacrifice zone, the last remnant of the
primeval Ohio forest hangs on." Appalachian
Places magazine, August 7, 2023. www.appalachianplaces.org/post/dysart-woods
"Wallace Stevens' 'Anecdote of the Jar': Modernist
Poetics and the Industrial Logging of the Great Appalachian Forest." Appalachian
Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place, edited by Laura Wright and Jessica Corey.
University of Georgia Press, 2023. Pages 241-252.
"The Gamer and
The Great Outdoors: Game Developer Tim Sweeney Donates 7,500 Acres of North
Carolina Mountains to a Conservancy." Appalachian Places
magazine, September 15, 2021. www.appalachianplaces.org/post/the-gamer-and-the-great-outdoors
"'The Iron
Horse Rides with Pegasus': Gilded Age Magazine Writing on Appalachia." The
Iron Mountain Review, Volume 33 (Fall 2019): 8-12.
"Crabby Crab--5 Songs."
By Kevin O'Donnell and the Human Animals, Johnson City, July 2017.
"Climate Change
in Appalachia: A Study Shows That Appalachia May Provide a 'Stronghold' of
Natural Resilience--But Don't Get Complacent; or, What Happens When the
Chickadees Run Out of Mountain." Now & Then: The Appalachian
Magazine, Vol 32, no 2 (Winter 2016): 34-40.
"'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.
