Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2020
B.A., Boston College
Academic Summary
Andrew Donnelly is a literary and cultural historian specializing in the periods of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction and in the field of Southern Studies. He is the author of Confederate Sympathies: Same-Sex Romance, Disunion, and Reunion in the Civil War Era, forthcoming from UNC Press in 2025, and essays in American Literary History, Women's Studies, American Literature, and Public Books. Previously, he was a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow, serving as the education programs manager for the . He is also the founder of the program for the , which brings PhD students and university faculty to teach summer college-bridge courses for high school students at the .
Select Publications
Book
- University of North Carolina Press, April 2025.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 鈥淗enry James鈥� Confederate Sympathies: Ingenuous Young Men from the Past and Corrupt Postbellum Politics.鈥� ESQ 69:2, 155-200. 2023.
- 鈥淰oting in the Reconstruction Novel: Black Enfranchisement, Election-Day Violence, and the Source of a Right to Vote.鈥� American Literary History Special Issue on Novel Democracy. 35:1, 38-52. 2023.
- 鈥淭he Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War.鈥� Civil War History. 68: 3, 295-321. 2022.
- 鈥淪towe鈥檚 Slavery and Stowe鈥檚 Capitalism: Forced Reproductive Labor in Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin.鈥� Women鈥檚 Studies. 51: 6, 647-660. 2022.
- 鈥淭he Yankee Leviathan Collects Statistics: Federal Education Policy During Reconstruction.鈥� Harvard Data Science Review. 3: 4. 2021.
- 鈥淭he Talking Book in the Secondary Classroom: Reading as a Promise of Freedom in the Era of Neoliberal Education Reform.鈥� American Literature 89: 2, 355-377. 2017.
- 鈥淟angston Hughes on the DL,鈥� College Literature 44: 1, 30-57. 2017.