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George Brosi
Editor, Appalachian Heritage
Bruce,
First Floor
CPO 2166
| Office Hours: |
By
appointment only |
Phone: 859-985-3699
Fax: 859-985-3903
E-Mail:
At Berea College since 2002
| Degrees |
- B.A. Sociology, Carleton
College, 1965
- M.A. Ed. English Education, Western
Carolina University, 1990
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| Courses |
- George
Brosi is not currently teaching, but throughout the nineteen-nineties
he taught for the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky
University and for the Kentucky community college system, often at off-campus
sites in rural Kentucky. He created the first correspondence/web course
in Appalachian Studies for UK and the first Appalachian Literature class
for EKU, and also taught Native American Literature,
Kentucky Literature, American Literature, British Literature and World
Literature as well as many creative and expository writing classes.
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| Special Interests |
- Gardening
and small farming
- Environmental Activism
- Peace and Justice
- Southern Whites for Civil Rights
- Creative Writing
- Appalachian Literature
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| Affiliations |
- Kentuckians
for the Commonwealth
- Appalachian
Studies Conference
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| Papers and Publications |
- Editor, Appalachian Heritage, 2002-present and author of its new book write-ups, 1985-present
- Editor of the "Creative Non-Fiction" section of New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writing (2007) published by the Jesse Stuart Foundation
- Co-editor - No
Lonesome Road: The Prose and Poetry of Don West (2004), published
by the University of Illinois Press.
- Editor of the “Images
and Icons” section of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia (2006)
from the University of Tennessee Press
- “Appalachian
Literature” in the Companion to Southern Literature (2003)
from Louisiana State University Press
- Co-editor of Jesse
Stuart: The Man and His Books (1988), published by the Jesse
Stuart Foundation
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| Biography |
| George
Brosi grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and received a bachelor’s
degree in Sociology from Carleton College in 1965, followed
by a master’s degree in English Education from Western
Carolina University in 1990. In addition to his half-time
job as editor of Appalachian Heritage, George Brosi, along
with his wife, Connie, runs a retail book business specializing
exclusively in books from and about Appalachia. Currently,
this enterprise primarily serves academic libraries and regional
conferences and celebrations. Brosi chairs the committee
to select the annual Weatherford Award winner in fiction
for the Appalachian Studies Association and Berea College.
In 2003, the Appalachian Writers Association gave Brosi their
award for outstanding contribution to regional literature.
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