My Work.
Published work; view at no cost.
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"Maggie and Buck: Coal Camps, Cabbage Rolls, and Community in Appalachia," Southern Cultures Vol. 20, No. 2: Summer 2014
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"Fighting Dragons (Or Witches): Western North Carolina Mountain Tradition-Bearers of Seventeenth-Century British Broadside Ballads," Journal of the Vernacular Music Center Vol. 2, No. 1: 2016
"Opening Segment of Your Introduction to the Fifth World," Still: The Journal #23 Winter 2017
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An Autoethnographic Curriculum for Appalachian Studies: Merging Humanities and Social Science Theories and Methods, NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship 2012
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"Cherokee Healing" (research aid) Special Collections at Belk Library, Appalachian State University 2009
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Published work; some abstracts are available, but must be purchased to view complete work.
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Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community ed. by Amy D. Clark and Nancy M. Hayward (review), West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 8, No. 21 Spring 2014 (excerpt available)
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"Grooves in the Record: An Interview with Crystal Wilkinson by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones, Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver," Appalachian Journal Vol. 39, No. 1-2 Fall/Winter 2012
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Donna Corriher on Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal by Penny Loeb (review). Appalachian Journal Vol. 38, No. 1 Fall 2010
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“Do What Lights Your Fire”: An Interview with Ron Lewis by Ashley Brewer, Donna Corriher, Jesse Edgerton, Hannah Furgiuele, Coty Hogue, Rebecca Jones, Blaze Edward Pappas, Shannon Perry, with Patricia D. Beaver," Appalachian Journal Vol. 39, No. 1-2 Fall/Winter 2012
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Southern Toughened Angels over St. John's Pass, CreateSpace Publishing, 2015
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Unchained Religion, CreateSpace Publishing, 2015
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Appalachian Missive (Formerly known as Dear Johnny Depp: Would You Please Buy the State of West Virginia? Autoethnography of an Appalachian Woman), CreateSpace Publishing, 2017
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"Whatever Should Not Be Forgotten," Kaleidoscope, Summer 2017
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"Donna Corriher on The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser , Review," Appalachian Journal Vol. 47, No. 3-4 Spring/Summer 2020, 310.
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I am interested in my past with the curiosity of an ethnographer who identifies specific social and individual influences upon my life. I share my past with the pride of an Appalachian woman fascinated by the self-reliance and tenacity of the family in my past, most of whom possessed many of what Appalachian scholar Loyal Jones termed "Appalachian Values"—self-reliance, a love of place, a sense of beauty, familism, humility and modesty, patriotism, religious, personalism, and a sense of humor....The unique appeal of Appalachia and the inspiration for continued research about the region and its people are found in a curious, ongoing ability to adapt and balance nature and technology. West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina—all were regions of Appalachia settled by immigrants and peoples with cultural knowledge and skills of survival.
"JoLynn saw a dead ‘possum yesterday.
She’s still screaming 'cause it weren’t dead." (Available on Amazon)
"He wasn't Abby. Some man who was young and had a lot of muscles just looked at her funny and continued lifting the cans to the truck. She watched as he climbed on the back and yelled something to the driver. She walked slowly behind the truck, about fifteen feet back, stopping when it stopped, walking on when it moved, until the man dumped the cans at her house and the truck moved on down and away. She stood in the alley a while, there at her cans, until the truck took the left out onto 58th street and she couldn't see it anymore." (Available on Amazon)