RACHEL C. KYNE, PHD, MA, BFA

2575 Blueback Drive, Gabriola, B.C., V0R 1X7 | 773-294-7802 |[email protected]| www.rachelkyne.com

§ Scholar of transatlantic/British Modernism with over ten years’ experience teaching college writing and literature to diverse student groups through innovative, interdisciplinary courses—in person and online

EDUCATION

DIPLOMA UNIVERSITY OF (Online) | English to French Translation Expected 2020

Ph.D. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago) | English Language and Literature 2017 Dissertation: “Stuck in Time: Modernist Momentums” Chair: Bill Brown Committee: Maud Ellmann, John Muse, Vincent Sherry

M.A. () | English and Creative Writing 2010 Thesis: “Passages in the Continuous Present: Poems” Chair: Stephanie Bolster; Advanced Workshops with Sina Queyras

B.F.A. EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY OF ART + DESIGN () | Visual Art 2005

ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS (Paris) | Peinture 2004

TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS

Transatlantic Anglophone modernist poetry and prose with a focus on British and French modernism and imperialism; historiography and narrative theory; 20th and 21st century war and representation; lyric and epic poetry; 19th-21st century visual cultures; photography; object cultures and memory; mobility and urban planning

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Spring 2020 “The Sound of Ford Madox Ford: War-Time, Impressionism, and Narrative Form,” in ELH (English Literary History) 87.1, Johns Hopkins University Press

Forthcoming “Immobility and immobilier in the Segregated City: Gwendolyn Brooks’ Chicago Poems,” in Bodies in Motion: Travelling Bodies in Anglophone Literature (Université Paris 8), Lexington University Press

TEACHING HIGHLIGHTS

• Design courses focused on fundamentals of college writing, critical thinking, and research • Develop inclusive assignments and evaluation methods to engage all skill levels and learning styles, including EFL students • Deliver online courses over Chalk, Canvas, D2L, or Moodle using multimedia formats including Zoom, Yuja, podcasts, PowerPoint, shared document software, email, chat, and videoconferencing • Prioritize inclusion of literatures by Black, Indigenous, and nonbinary authors in syllabus design • Create innovative special topics syllabi with interdisciplinary approaches to literature, history, and art • Provide extensive one-on-one support with demonstrable improvement in student writing

APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING HISTORY

Spring 2020 Online Lecturer, Department of English | University of

• Delivered two fully online sections of Literature and Society, a required English credit class for non-specialist and EFL students o Course objectives focused on fundamentals of essay writing and close reading

• Designed syllabi and all assignments; responsible for all evaluation

• Collaborated with Liaison Librarian to provide in-class Citation and Research lectures

• Used hybrid synchronous and asynchronous delivery to connect with students including:

o Synchronous lectures delivered over Zoom, recorded and posted on D2L o Asynchronous Video Lectures recorded using Yuja on topics including: - Writing a Strong Thesis Statement - The British War Poets - Space and Erasure in Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Poetry o Podcasts 5-40 minutes long that modelled close-reading of course poems o Weekly office hours over Zoom o Group Annotation assignments using shared Google Docs to close read poems and engage students with their peers o Discussion board posts and a creative assignment o Multimedia Powerpoint presentations to present historical contexts o Extensive use of in-class chat over Zoom and email communications

2017-2019 Postdoctoral Humanities Teaching Fellow | University of Chicago

Recognized for teaching excellence with competitive 2-year teaching Fellowship Taught standard first-year College Core classes and self-designed interdisciplinary seminars Recognized for inclusive and diversity-based approach to syllabus design

2018 Online AlumniU Continuing Education Lecturer | University of Chicago

Designed 4-week online Alumni course via video lecture and online discussion

2014- 2016 Lecturer, Department of English | University of Chicago

Designed syllabi and all assignments; responsible for class discussion and all evaluation

2016 Liberal Arts Lecturer, First Year Seminars | School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Taught college writing and analytical skills to ESL learners in discussion-based seminars 2010-2014 Course Assistant, Department of English | University of Chicago

Led weekly tutorials for 24-28 students, graded work, developed assignments

2009-2010 Writers Read Series Assistant | Concordia University

Awarded competitive Renaud Teaching Fellowship to coordinate visiting writers series

2008-2010 Teaching Assistant, Department of English | Concordia University

Led weekly tutorials for 25-30 students, graded work, collaborated with faculty lecturer

2002-2005 Writing Centre Assistant and ESL Tutor | Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Taught college-level writing and revision to international students and faculty

COURSES TAUGHT

Online Teaching: Spring 2020 University of Calgary English 251 Literature and Society – “Movement and the Metropolis in Modernist Poetry” Delivered using D2L with Zoom lectures, Yuja lectures and videos, podcasts, discussion boards, shared documents, group assignments, chat functions, and email

Winter 2018 University of Chicago AlumniU “Mixed Media Modernisms” Asynchronous delivery using video lectures filmed using works in the collection of the Smart Museum of Art (Chicago) as well as discussion boards

Special Topics Seminars: University of Chicago

Winter 2019 “Image, Text, Archive: Photography and 20th Century Narrative Experiments” Fall 2018 “The Unincorporated: Modernism, Geography, and Race” Spring 2018 “Modernism and War” Winter 2018 “Movement in Modernist Poetry” Fall 2016 “Mixed Media Modernisms: Time, Technology, War” Fall 2014 “French Avant-Gardes and Anglo-American Modernism”

First Year Courses with Writing Instruction Component: University of Chicago; School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Fall 2018 “Readings in World Literature I: Epic” Fall 2017 “Readings in World Literature I: Epic” Winter 2019 “Readings in World Literature II: Autobiography” Winter 2018 “Readings in World Literature II: Autobiography” Fall 2016 “First Year Seminar: Caught in the Machine: Individuals and Institutions in Post- World War II Europe”

Courses Taught as Course Assistant:

Spring 2014 “Late 20th Century American Literature and Culture” | University of Chicago Fall 2013 “Shakespeare’s Greek and Roman Plays” | University of Chicago Winter 2012 “Introduction to Poetry” | University of Chicago Winter 2008 “British Literature to 1660” | Concordia University Winter 2009 “British Literature to 1660” | Concordia University Fall 2008 “Introduction to Literary Analysis” | Concordia University

PEDAGOGICAL PRESENTATIONS AND SERVICE

2019 Invited Speaker, “Diverse by Design: Inclusive Syllabi Design” Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago

2018-2019 B.A. English Honours Thesis Director: Abigail Reeves, “Haunting History: Virginia Woolf, Vivian Maier, and the Twentieth-Century Flâneuse” Department of English, University of Chicago

2018-2019 Faculty Advisor, Interdisciplinary English Graduate Conference University of Chicago

2018 Invited Speaker, “Teaching Your Dissertation” English Graduate Pedagogy Workshop, University of Chicago

2018 Invited Speaker, “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: When, Why, and How” Chicago Center for Teaching, University of Chicago

2018-2019 Volunteer Afterschool Tutor (elementary and high school students) I Grow Chicago, Englewood, Chicago Gary Comer Youth Center, Grand Crossing, Chicago

2016 Workshop Exhibition Guide Art Institute of Chicago and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2015-2016 Administrative Assistant Center for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago

2013-2016 Copyeditor, Proofreader, and Research Assistant John Muse, Microdramas: Crucibles for Theater and Time (University of Michigan Press, 2017)

2012-2016 Graduate Curatorial Assistant Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Curator Anne Leonard

2012-2016 Copyeditor and Research Assistant Bill Brown, Other Things (University of Chicago Press, 2015)

2010-2014 Research Assistant and Index Writer Omri Moses, Out of Character: Modernism, Vitalism, and Psychic Life (Stanford University Press, 2013)

2010-2014 Editorial Staff Member, Poetry Chicago Review, University of Chicago

2008 Editor and Proofreader, Dissertation Manuscript Omar Dewachi, Ph.D.: “The Professionalization of the Iraqi Medical Doctor in Britain: Medicine, Citizenship, Sovereignty and Empire” (Harvard University, 2008)

SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2017-2019 Postdoctoral Humanities Teaching Fellowship | University of Chicago

2017 Collège de France Research Fellowship | France Chicago Center, Paris

2017 NEH Summer Institute Grant, “Making Modernism in Chicago,” Newberry Library, Chicago

2017 Nicholson Center for British Studies Archival Research Fellowship | University of Chicago

2016 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, “The Great War and Modernist Historiography” | Washington University in St Louis

2015-2016 Williams Dissertation-Year Fellowship | University of Chicago

2010-2014 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Fellowship | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of

2010 David McKeen Award for best Graduate Creative Writing thesis | Concordia University, Montréal

2009-2010 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Fellowship | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

2009-2010 Renaud Teaching Fellowship for top Creative Writing student | Concordia University, Montréal

2004 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Exchange Fellowship | École nationale supérieure des beaux- arts, Paris

2001-2005 Canada Millennium Excellence Award for Leadership, Creativity, and Innovation | Government of Canada

RECENT CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Presenter: Mar 2020 “Temporalities of Depression: Writing Eventfulness Without Qualities in a Chronic Present,” ACLA (Cancelled due to Covid; papers distributed among seminar participants)

Jun 2019 “Immobility and immobilier in the Segregated City: Gwendolyn Brooks’ Chicago Poems,” Bodies in Motion: Travelling Bodies in Anglophone Literature (Université Paris 8)

Nov 2018 “Self-Care: An Untapped Value Proposition,” Roundtable Organizer with Director of Health & Wellness, University of Chicago Graduate English Conference

Feb 2016 “T.S. Eliot’s Eternities, or, How to Prevent a Revolution,” University of Chicago Poetry & Poetics Workshop

Mar 2016 “Furnishing Remains in Rebecca West and Elizabeth Bowen,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (NEMLA)

Oct 2014 “Living ‘for the duration’: Repeating Waiting in the Great War,” University of Chicago Modernisms Workshop Planning: 2018-2019 Faculty Advisor, Interdisciplinary Graduate English Conference, University of Chicago

Nov 2013 Assistant, Forms of Fiction: The Novel in English (organized by Bill Brown, Frances Ferguson, and Maud Ellmann)

Nov 2012 Organizer, University of Chicago Art History and English Graduate Conference, States of Suspension: Politics and Histories, Aesthetics and Affects

RELEVANT CERTIFICATIONS

2019 DALF C1 (Diplôme approfondi de langue française)

2018 Mental Health First Aid Training Certification | Mental Health First Aid International

REFERENCES

Bill Brown, Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture, University of Chicago [email protected]

Deborah Nelson, Chair, Department of English, University of Chicago [email protected]

Joseph Lampert, Director, Initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chicago Center for Teaching [email protected]