Carol Donelan

Education & Professional History

University of Iowa, MA; MA; University of Massachusetts-Amherst, PhD

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At Carleton since 1999.

Highlights & Recent Activity

“The Formatting of Form in Game of Thrones” (under review, 2025).

“Traumatic History and the Prosthesis of Myth in The Best Years of Our Lives” in John M. Price (ed), Refocus: The Films of William Wyler (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

“Diagnosing Mental and Moral Disability in Post 9/11 Popular American Film Narratives” in Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan (eds), Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media (New York: Lexington Books, 2022).

“Seeing and Touching the Bodies of Others: Evolving the Male Animal toward Secular Moral Enlightenment in the Planet of the Apes Reboot Franchise” in Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy (eds), Contemporary American Science Fiction Film (London: Routledge, 2022).

“Kubrick’s Gangster Artistry: Contradiction and Hybridity in The Killing” in Elsa Colombani (ed), A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick (New York: Lexington Books, 2020).

“‘She’s the King of the World!’ Modernizing Melodrama in Titanic” in Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna (eds), A Critical Companion to James Cameron (New York: Lexington Books, 2019).

Co-editor, Special Issue on Historical Film and Television, Gender & History 30.3 (October 2018).

Co-author, “Epistemology and Mediation in Historical Film and Television: How the Gendered Past is Constructed in Knowledge and Representation,” Gender & History 30.3 (October 2018).

“‘Too Marvelous For Words’: Bogart and Bacall’s Dark Passage through Myth to the Enlightenment of Modernized Melodrama,” Film Criticism 42.1 (March 2018).

“‘Sing Me a Song of a Lass That is Gone’: Myth and Meaning in the Starz Original Series Outlander,” Quarterly Review of Film & Video 35.1 (2018).

“Film Lecturing for the National Audubon Society: Roger Tory Peterson’s Wild America,” The Moving Image 17.1 (2017).

“Audubon Screen Tours: The National Audubon Society and the Making of a 16mm Network,” Film History: An International Journal 28.1 (2016).

“Vampires Suck! Twihards Rule!!! Myth and Meaning in the Twilight Saga Franchise, Quarterly Review of Film & Video 32.3 (2015).