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 National Book Foundation. He is also the founder of the Freedom Summer Collegiate program for the Freedom Project Network, which brings PhD students and university faculty to teach summer college-bridge courses for high school students at the Freedom Projects in Mississippi.

Select Publications

“Henry James’ Confederate Sympathies: Ingenuous Young Men from the Past and Corrupt Postbellum Politics.” ESQ 69:2, 155-200. 2023.

“Voting in the Reconstruction Novel: Black Enfranchisement, Election-Day Violence, and the Source of a Right to Vote.” American Literary History Special Issue on Novel Democracy. 35:1, 38-52. 2023.

“The Sexuality of Civil War Historiography: How Two Versions of Homosexuality Make Meaning of the War.” Civil War History. 68: 3, 295-321. 2022.

“Stowe’s Slavery and Stowe’s Capitalism: Forced Reproductive Labor in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Women’s Studies. 51: 6, 647-660. 2022.

“The Yankee Leviathan Collects Statistics: Federal Education Policy During Reconstruction.” Harvard Data Science Review. 3: 4. 2021.

“The Talking Book in the Secondary Classroom: Reading as a Promise of Freedom in the Era of Neoliberal Education Reform.” American Literature 89: 2, 355-377. 2017.

“Langston Hughes on the DL,” College Literature 44: 1, 30-57. 2017.