Person

Donnelly, Andrew

1987

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.