Kevin O’Sullivan

Assistant Professor
- Areas of Speciality
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- Digital Humanities
- Early Modern Studies
- History of the Book and Textual Studies
- Contact
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- (979) 458-0377
- kmosullivan@tamu.edu
- LAAH 554
Education
PhD, Texas A&M University, 2023
MS, University of Texas at Austin, 2009
BA, University of Notre Dame, 2006
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
Honors and Awards
- Texas Digital Library Excellence Award, 2019
- Glasscock Faculty Research Fellowship, 2023-24
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.