Kevin O’Sullivan
  • Associate Professor
Research Areas
  • Transnational Literatures
  • Race and Ethnicity Studies
  • Digital Humanities
  • Information Studies
  • Material Culture Studies
  • Book History
  • Early Modern Studies

Research Interests

  • Sixteenth-century poetry, especially that of Edmund Spenser
  • Tudor-Stuart Ireland
  • Early printing
  • Digital approaches to book history
  • Bibliography
  • Library and Information Science

 

Research Areas

  • Transnational Literatures
  • Race and Ethnicity Studies
  • Digital Humanities
  • Early Modern Studies
  • Material Culture Studies
  • Book History
  • Information Studies

Educational Background

  • PhD, Texas A&M University, 2023
  • MS, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
  • BA, University of Notre Dame, 2006

Awards & Honors

  • Texas Digital Library Excellence Award, 2019
  • Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship, 2023-24

Selected Publications

    • “The Bibliographical Maker Movement” (co-authored with Courtney Jacobs and Marcia McIntosh). In “Bestsellers, Digital Technologies and their Limitations in Book History,” edited by Martyn Lyons. Special issue, Knygotyra 78 (2022): 163-193.
    • “Primary Source Literacy in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond” (co-authored with Heidi Craig). In “Academic Libraries: Responsive in Crisis,” edited by Ellysa Stern Cahoy and Maribeth Slebodnik. Special issue, portal: Libraries and the Academy 22.1 (January 2022): 93-109.
    • Make-Ready: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community” (co-authored with Courtney Jacobs and Marcia McIntosh). Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 18 (December 2020).
    • “The Continued Case for Bibliographical Teaching Collections.” portal: Libraries and the Academy 20.3 (July 2020): 435-448.
    • “Towards Inclusive Outreach: What Special Collections Can Learn from Disability Studies” (co-authored with Gia Alexander). RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 21.1 (Spring 2020): 11-25.
    • “Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy” (co-authored with Courtney Jacobs and Marcia McIntosh). RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 19.1 (Spring 2018): 59-69.