Degrees

2014, BA English, Brigham Young University

2017, MFA Creative Writing, Colorado State University

Bio

Kylan Rice studies nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry and poetics.

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Publications:

Books:

• An Image Not a Book (Free Verse Editions, forthcoming 2023)
• Primer, co-authored with Dan Beachy-Quick (Free Poetry Press, 2023)
• Incryptions (Spuyten Duyvil, 2021)

Anthologies:

• Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly, co-edited with Sophia Houghton and Daniel Wallace (UNC Press, forthcoming 2023)

Articles:

• “‘Bird, Jewel, or Flower?’: On the Tokenization of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry,” ELH (forthcoming)
• “A ‘Correspondence of Eyes with Eyes’: Edwin Arlington Robinson, Empathy, and Literary Naturalism,” CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 20, no. 3, December 2020, pp. 179 – 205.
• “‘In Couples, In Small Companies’: On Robert Duncan and Sentimental Modernism.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, & Theory, vol. 76, no. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 87-113.
• “‘Some Other’s Text’: Dan Beachy-Quick, Moby-Dick, and the Poetics of Reading.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2019, pp. 83-103.
• “‘Light—enabling Light’: Emily Dickinson and the Apparatus of the Poet’s I.” Women’s Studies, vol. 47, no. 3, 2018, pp. 317-332.

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Teaching Awards

• Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2023.

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Awards

• Lyle V. Jones Dissertation Fellowship, awarded within the Royster Society of Fellows, 2022-23.
• Graduate Student Fellowship, Emily Dickinson International Society, 2023
• Early Stages Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Summer 2021
• Bain Award for outstanding academic performance in the second year of graduate study, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2019
• Ruth Richardson Award for outstanding academic performance in the first year of graduate study, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2016, MA English, University of Virginia

2013, BA English, University of California Berkeley

Bio

Stephanie Kinzinger is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English and the Game Studies Initiative Project Manager in the Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab Gaming Initiative. She focuses on American literature, science, technology, and critical game studies and teaches courses in literature, video games, and multimodal composition and rhetoric. Broadly conceived, her research investigates experiments in the gamification of reality avant la lettre by considering select authors and game designers from the mid nineteenth century to the present who not only depict otherworldly fictions but also insist that such endeavors have the potential to make the world otherwise. Her dissertation –“Playing Reality: The Promise and Peril of Compositional Realities”– uses literary theory, play studies, and critical game studies to explore how the formal and political possibilities of video games are anticipated—and sometimes preemptively challenged—by American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and to interrogate how the limits and possibilities of contemporary experiments in Virtual Reality offer new vistas for potentially recodifying current social structures.

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Publications:

• “Embodied Cognition in Edgar Allan Poe: Eureka’s Cosmology, Dupin’s Intuition.” Nineteenth-Century Literature. 1 December 2022; 77 (2-3): 124–144.

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Teaching Awards

• 2022 Professional Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Awards

• 2023 The James W. Gargano Award, for the outstanding article on Poe written in 2022, The Poe Studies Association
• 2023 John R. Bittner Award for Outstanding Work on a Dissertation in Literature, Popular Media, and Journalism, UNC Chapel Hill
• 2023 Digital Dissertation Fellowship, Carolina Digital Humanities, Digital Innovation Lab (DIL), UNC Chapel Hill
• 2023 Excellence in Critical Game Studies Award, Digital Literacy and Communications (DLC) Lab, UNC Chapel Hill
• 2023 Thompson-Lumiansky Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill
• 2022 Humanities Initiative Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2008, BA English, Emory University

2014, MA English, Georgetown University

Bio

Mallory’s research focuses on American women writers of the mid-nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the ways that romantic love and sexuality destabilize traditional marriage plots.

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Teaching Awards

• Erika Lindemann Teaching Award in Composition and Literature, 2016-2017

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