KEVIN E. O'DONNELL

short vita--August 2010

faculty.etsu.edu/odonnell/

EMPLOYMENT

Professor 2004-present; Associate Prof (tenured) 1998-2004; Dept of English, East TN State U, Johnson City. Director, Environmental Studies minor, Spring 2006-present.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 1989-93.

PUBLICATIONS (selected)

“‘Pioneers of Spoliation’: Woolson’s Horace Chase 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. Ed. Kathleen Diffley. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi; in press, forthcoming 2011.

"The Expanding Range of Mountaintop Removal Literature: Two New Books [Review Essay]" Journal of Appalachian Studies 15, 1&2 (Spring & Fall 2009): 213-18.

Historic Photos of Appalachia. Nashville: Turner Publishing Co, 2009. 220 pages.

"Coal Country, in Black and White: Photographs, 1968-1973, by Jeanne Rasmussen (1934-1992)." An exhibition in Gallery C at ETSU's Carroll Reece Museum, June 3-August 28, 2008.

"Bradford Torrey (1843-1912)." Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Daniel Patterson. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 2008. 365-373.

"Book and Periodical Illustration." American History through Literature, 1820-1870. Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert Sattelmeyer. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 144-48.

"Environment" [32-article section]. Co-editor, with Don Davis. Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Ed. Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 2006. 100-49. Also authored numerous articles, including "Environment--Overview," "Travel Writing," "William Bartram."

"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.

Seekers of Scenery: Travel Writing from Southern Appalachia, 1840-1900. First author; co-editor with Helen Hollingsworth. Knoxville: U of Tennessee Press, 2004.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (selected)

"William Bartram's Travels (1791): Romantic Poetry and the Birth of Nonfiction." 36th Annual Conference of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS), Johnson City TN, February 2010.

"A Literary Land Grab: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Gilded-Age Industrialization of Appalachia." Constance Fenimore Woolson Society Eighth Biennial Conference, Morgantown WV, April 2009.

"Promoting Sustainability at ETSU: Changing a University's Carbon Culture," with ETSU students E. Gulas, M. Morton. 18th annual SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere) Conference, Johnson City TN, October 2007.

"Illustrating Appalachia: Southern Mountain Landscapes from Appleton's Picturesque America (1872-1874)." 28th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Radford VA, March 2005.

"Southern Prospects: Mass-Produced Mountain Landscape Images and the End of Reconstruction." 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Atlanta GA, November 2004.

"Woolson as Ecofeminist: Tourism, Development, and Environmental Themes in Horace Chase (1894)." 6th Biennial C.F. Woolson Society Conference. Cooperstown NY, October 2004.

"Charles Dudley Warner and the Railroads in the South: A Study in Corporate Influence on American Literary Magazines, 1876-1893." 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Hartford CT, October 2003.

GRANTS (selected)

ETSU English Dept Research Grant, for research trip to Cambridge MA. $1500. May 2008.

Working Films (Wilmington NC). In-kind grant for public screening rights and expenses, to organize a "Mountain Justice Film Festival," Johnson City TN. $400. April 2006.

ETSU Research Development Grant. Stipend and travel funds, to research 19th century travel writing at the American Antiquarian Society Archives in Worcester MA. $4,400. Summer 2001. Plus ETSU RDC "small grant," $1,000 to index the resulting book, Fall 2004.