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KAYLEY HART

Department of English, Texas A&M University

kayleyhart@tamu.edu | (979) 220 0561

EDUCATION

MA Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station

Expected May 2021

BA Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station 2017 – 2019

AA Department of Foreign Language, Blinn College, Bryan 2015 –2017

Associate of Arts, Spanish

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Graduate Assistant Researcher

Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), Texas A&M University 2019 – 2020

Undergraduate Assistant Researcher

Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), Texas A&M University 2018 – 2019

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Center of Digital Humanities Research Tuition Scholarship

Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), Texas A&M University 2019

Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Tuition Scholarship 2019

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Canada

PUBLICATION AND SERVICE

World Shakespeare Bibliography 2019

Annotation of “Empirical Errors: The Comedy of Errors and ‘Knowing’

Metamorphosing Forms”

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DEANNA STOVER Department of English, Texas A&M University

MS 4227, College Station, TX 77843 d.m.stover@tamu.edu | (480) 332-1852 | https://deannastover.com/

EDUCATION PhD Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station August 2020 (expected)

Certificates: Digital Humanities, Women’s and Gender Studies Defense: April 21, 2020

Dissertation: “Deadly Toys: Mini Worlds and Wars, 1815-1914” Committee: Claudia Nelson (chair), Maura Ives, Jessica Howell, and Brian Rouleau

BA Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe May 2012

Certificates: Classical Studies (Latin) Distinctions: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, Dean’s Medal for most outstanding graduating senior in English

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Graduate Assistant Teacher 2014-19 Department of English, Texas A&M University Graduate Assistant Researcher

2019-20 Project Manager, Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), Texas A&M University

2015-16 Editorial Assistant, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

2015 Summer Research Assistant, Digital Black Bibliography Project (DIBB) PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Articles

“‘Estes Park is Mine’: Isabella Bird’s Periodical Publications about the Rocky Mountains.” Victorian Periodicals Review. Accepted.

“H.G. Wells at Play: War Games and Power in Floor Games and Little Wars.” Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature 27.1 (2020). Forthcoming.

“American Woman: Feminine Speech and the Reformation of National Identity Through Female Community in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl.” Women’s Writing 25.1 (2018): 80-94. Reprinted in Children’s Literature in the Long 19th Century. Eds. Catherine Butler and Ann Alston. Routledge, 2019.

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“Alternative Family and Textual Citizenship in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy: A Drama in Three Acts.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 40.4 (2015): 339-354.

Peer Reviewed Digital Edition

H. G. Wells’s Little Wars (1913). Co-edited with Nigel Lepianka. Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing 38 (2017). Includes a 5,000 word introduction, notes, and a simplified set of Wells’s rules for play.

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS National/International 2019 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Travel Award 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association Graduate Student Travel Grant 2018 Australasian Children’s Literature Association for Research (ACLAR) Kate McInally

Postgraduate Essay Award, “H.G. Wells at Play: War Games and Power in Floor Games and Little Wars”

2018 Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant, Cotsen Children’s Library, Princeton University

2017-19 HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholar

College and University

2019 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching

2018 Symposium and Small Conference Grant, “‘It’s Alive!’: Frankenstein’s Monster 200 Years Later,” Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, co-written with Desirae Embree

2018 Glasscock Graduate Research Fellowship, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research

2018 Summer Technical Assistance Grant, Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) 2018 Fasken Graduate Student Teaching Award 2016 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship from the Initiative for Digital

Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) 2016 Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Travel and Research Assistance Grant 2015-16 Graduate and Professional Student Council Aggies Commit Fellowship 2015 Digital Humanities Summer Institute Tuition Scholarship from the IDHMC Departmental

2019 Dissertation Enhancement Award

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2019 Summer Dissertation Bootcamp 2018 Research Enhancement Award 2015-18 Merit Award, English Graduate Program 2017 Staley Creswell Teaching Award for outstanding teaching by a graduate student 2017 Summertime Advanced Research (STAR) Award for fellowship applications 2017 Professional Development Award 2016 Forrest Burt Memorial Award for excellence in research in Victorian Studies CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“War at Your Leisure: War Games and the Volunteer Service Gazette.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Brighton, England, July 25-27, 2019.

“‘Captain Brainless’: Authorial Rivalry in the Brontë Juvenilia.” Girls and Reading Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, April 11, 2019.

“Toy Monuments: Edith Nesbit’s Wings and the Child, or the Building of Magic Cities.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Dallas, TX, March 21-24, 2019.

“Playing at War in the Popular Press.” North American Victorian Studies Association, St. Petersburg, FL, October 11-14, 2018.

“‘War in Miniature’: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Fake News.” Victorian Popular Fiction Association, London, England, July 3-7, 2018.

“Digitizing Play: Experimental Technology and H.G. Wells’ Floor Games and Little Wars.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 9-12, 2017.

“‘A Red-Handed Man’: The Wild West and Sensational Sociability in Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains." North American Victorian Studies Association, Phoenix, AZ, November 2-5, 2016.

“The Good Kind of Bad: Isabella Bird’s Carefully Edited Transgressions.” Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, Austin, TX, September 29-October 1, 2016.

“American Woman: Feminine Speech and the Reformation of National Identity in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl.” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 26-29, 2016.

“‘This Unhappy Man’: Isabella Bird’s Spectral Romance in A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains.” Victorian Intimacies Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 16, 2016.

“Gold Slippers and Cyborg Feet: Comparing Adopted Bodies in the Grimms’ 'Cinderella' and Marissa Meyer’s Cinder.” Modern Language Association Conference, Austin, TX, January 7-10, 2016.

“‘My boyfriend is named Percocet’: Disability and Criminality in E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars,” Children’s Literature Association, Richmond, VA, June 18-20, 2015.

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“Textual Literacy and Citizenship in Little Lord Fauntleroy: A Drama in Three Acts.” Critical Childhood Studies Seminar Symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, March 27, 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Texas A&M University, Instructor of Record, 11 sections, 295 students

Children’s Literature, 1 section, 35 students

Victorian Literature, 1 section, 35 students Writing about Literature, 3 sections, 25 students each

Technical Writing, 4 sections, 25 students each Composition and Rhetoric, 2 sections, 25 students each

Texas A&M University, Grader, 2 sections, 365 students

World Literature, 150 students Science Fiction Past to Present, 215 students

Lee College - Huntsville, Instructor of Record, 1 section, 25 students

Composition, Texas Department of Criminal Justice O.B. Ellis Unit Florence State Prison, Graduate Student Volunteer, 1 section, 15 students

English as a Second Language

Arizona State University, Grader, 4 sections, 100 students

Service-Learning: Diverse Community Issues, 1 section, 25 students Service Learning for Educators, 3 sections, 25 students each

Guest Lectures

Jane Eyre, Then and Now, TAMU, Harry Potter (film), 2 classes, Fall 2019 Graduate Pedagogy Seminar, TAMU, Teaching Awards and Designing Syllabi, Fall 2019 The English Novel to 1870, TAMU, Robinson Crusoe, Spring 2018 19th Century Travel and the Body, TAMU, Isabella Bird, Spring 2016

CERTIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2018 Drupal Short Course, Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR), TAMU. 2017 Certificate in Building a Professional Identity and Skillset in the Digital, Digital

Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI).

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2017 Certificate in 3D Modeling for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, DHSI. 2017 “Google Classroom.” Unconference session leader, Digital Humanities Summer

Institute (DHSI), Victoria, BC, Canada. June 12, 2017. 2016 North American Victorian Studies Association Professionalization Workshop. 2016 Certificate for completing Programming 4 Humanities: What is Digital Humanities?

mini-course through the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC).

2016 Certificate in Conceptualizing and Creating a Digital Edition, DHSI. 2016 Programming 4 Humanists Certificate, IDHMC, TAMU, Spring 2016. A semester long

course covering Topic Modeling, OpenRefine, TEI, XSLT, and Optical Character Recognition.

2015 Publication Workshop for Emergent Scholars at the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Conference.

2014 Programming 4 Humanists Certificate, IDHMC, TAMU, Fall 2014. A semester long course covering TEI encoding and basic XSLT.

PUBLIC HUMANITIES PROJECTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2018 Organizer of a weeklong series of public programming at Texas A&M University to

celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein including the “‘It’s Alive!’: Frankenstein’s Monster 200 Years Later” Symposium, November 15-16, 2018. Faculty advisor: Susan Egenolf.

2017-18 Editorial Assistant for Susan Egenolf, “Gods in the Western Midlands: The Immortal Achievements of Wedgwood, Woodall, and Webb,” a public exhibit at Forsyth Galleries, TAMU, February 23-May 13, 2018.

2013 Research Assistant for Susan Lowell Humphrey. Helped to edit an unabridged edition of Anthony Trollope’s The Duke's Children from the original manuscript

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE 2018-20 Co-convener, New Modern British Studies Working Group, TAMU. 2017-18 New Graduate Assistant Teacher Mentor for six first-year teachers, Department of

English, TAMU. 2015-18 New Graduate Student Mentor, Department of English, TAMU. 2017 Assessment community for a sophomore-level course, Introduction to Women’s and

Gender Studies, TAMU. 2016-17 Executive Committee Representative, English Graduate Student Association, TAMU. 2016 One of two PhD students who supervised four Master’s students in revising the

Department of English at TAMU’s Composition and Rhetoric, Technical Business

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Writing, and Writing about Literature courses; creating GAT and Newcomer’s handbooks; and both planning and running a three-and-a-half-day GAT Training.

2016 Served on an ad hoc committee with the Coordinator of Multi-Section Writing Courses to revise the syllabus and assignments for TAMU English Department’s Technical Business Writing course.

2015-16 Co-President, English Graduate Student Association, TAMU. 2015 Assisted in writing the handbook for new graduate student orientation, Department of

English, TAMU. 2015 Created website and flyer for the TAMU Glasscock Humanities Center’s Critical

Childhood Studies Seminar Symposium. REFERENCES Claudia Nelson

claudia_nelson@tamu.edu Professor Emeritus of English Texas A&M University Laura Mandell

mandell@tamu.edu Director, Center of Digital Humanities Research Professor of English Texas A&M University Shawna Ross

shawnaross@tamu.edu Assistant Professor of English Texas A&M University

Itemized Budget New Woman Miniature (3D model designed by Tim Swartz) = $350 Woman Hawking Goods (3D model designed by Tim Swartz) = $450 Printing costs = $50 Paints and painting supplies = $150 Total: $1000

Grant Narrative As of yet, children’s literature and childhood studies are poorly represented in the digital

humanities (DH). Digital projects certainly exist: several libraries have produced open-access digital archives; larger organizations such as Hathi Trust and Google Books have digitized important children’s periodicals and books; notable scholars publish helpful and productive blogs; and smaller, curated collections such as The Lone Woman and Last Indians Digital Archive and The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939 are important additions to the field. However, a cursory search in the top DH journals reveals that children’s literature is practically non-existent in DH publications. Our project seeks to answer the need for digital humanities scholarship focused on children’s literature—a focus that will enrich both fields. Deanna Stover is working on digital editions of H.G. Wells’s Floor Games (1911) and its companion book, Little Wars (1913) for a site, H.G. Wells at Play: Floor Games & Little Wars. Both books detail play using toy soldiers and other miniatures, including instructions for building and designing toy “worlds.” William Britain had revolutionized the toy industry in 1893 by inventing hollow lead soldiers, making the figurines more affordable and allowing for what Kenneth Brown refers to as the “toy soldier craze” of the two decades preceding World War I. Both of Wells’s works were direct results of this craze, but in Floor Games, Wells repeatedly addresses and chastises toymakers, pleading for more civilian figurines since “even the grocer wears epaulettes.” Floor Games even includes a full-page illustration captioned “Some Suggestions for Toy Makers”—suggestions we plan to make a reality with the help of one of our own century’s revolutionary toy technologies: the 3D printer. While the CoDHR Project Development Grant will not cover the creation of these digital editions which Stover plans to publish in December 2020, my objective in this proposal is to secure funding for the 3D rendering and 3D printing of two of the thirty-two miniature figurines sketched by J. R. Sinclair and published in Floor Games. These models will be freely downloadable on the edition website and come with instructions for painting the figurines according to early 20th-century fashions, allowing readers to both interact with physical embodiments of Wells’s text and also engage with that text as an historical object. The creation of these figurines will be the basis of an article Stover and I will submit to a digital humanities journal, as discussed in the deliverables portion of this grant. Floor Games offers an interesting opportunity to think about more modern technologies and how they can affect the ways we relate to and engage with texts—especially texts that invite (and even necessitate) play. Despite concerns about the immateriality of the digital, we hope to show how digital products can actually help re-necessitate physical interactions with a text, although in an altered, 21st century way.

Proposed Deliverables As described in the Grant Narrative, Stover is developing a digital edition, H.G. Wells at Play: Floor Games & Little Wars, which features a section entitled “The Toys,” where users can download and print the civilian miniatures H.G. Wells and J.R. Sinclair imagined in Floor Games. I am contributing to this project by aiding Stover in getting the civilian miniatures designed, and helping to prepare instructions for painting the 3D-printed models according to early-twentieth-century fashions. Thus, this project has two kinds of deliverables: STL, or stereolithography files, of the 3D-printable civilian miniatures which will be uploaded to the site (coming December 2020); and an article Stover and I are co-writing for a digital humanities journal. We will be working with Tim Swartz to design the 3D models. Previous to this grant, we have a working prototype of the suffragette J.R. Sinclair and Wells imagined, but the CoDHR Project Development Grant will allow us to design and print two more of the thirty-two civilian miniatures. After the prototypes are developed and test-printed in the Texas A&M University Makerspace, I will research early-twentieth-century fashions and write up instructions for painting the miniatures. Stover will then upload the STL files and the instructions to H.G. Wells at Play. The two miniatures we are proposing to 3D model first are a New Woman and a woman hawking goods.

In addition to the deliverable of the miniatures themselves, Stover and I will also co-write a scholarly article about “playing” with the “limits” of the digital edition. The article will also address the gender and race ideologies that are palpable in Floor Games and Little Wars. As Jentery Sayers has remarked, “the use of matter as a medium for historical research does not need fetishize the past. Instead it can become a time and space to interpret the intricacies of material design and interaction, both then and now” (“Prototyping”). While we are recreating the civilian miniatures that Wells imagined and Sinclair drew, we are also thinking critically about how the sexism and racism in Wells’s works continue in popular gaming culture today--and how these miniatures have the potential to disrupt ideas about class, gender, and race in both the early-twentieth-century and the here and now.

In this article, we will be discussing how 3D printing miniatures like the suffragette (already designed and printed), new woman, and street vendor, can help us re-think gender and class in Wells’s works—and in William Britain’s own toy designs. This is particularly important for a game that maligns being a woman as a “disability” and for a toy designer whose response to Wells’s call for more civilian miniatures was miniatures of middle-class women with seemingly no political agenda.

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In 2015, Jentery Sayers “prompt[ed] scholars to remake technologies that no longer function, no longer exist, or may have only existed as fictions, illustrations, or one-offs” (“Prototyping”). He has done so himself, recreating, as one example, Trouvé’s skull stick-pin. Sayers and the Maker Lab Team at the University of Victoria 3D printed both the skull and gears that make the stick-pin move as an early wearables kit for distribution to a (relatively) small number of people. In 2018, Margaret Konkol published “Prototyping Mina Loy’s Alphabet” in Feminist Modernist Studies, in which she describes the theory and practice behind developing a 3D-printed “Alphabet that Builds Itself” developed by Loy, but never created, for F.A.O Schwartz. Even before these projects, William J. Turkel and Devon Elliott used 3D printing in their classrooms to recreate historical stage magic, publishing on this project back in 2011 and 2012.

These projects serve as important inspiration for H.G. Wells at Play, but one of the things that separate us is that because our 3D printable models will be part of a digital edition, they are truly open-access, easily downloadable by users of the edition, as opposed to a scholarly, creative exercise. Even Sayers’s project has no STL, or stereolithography files, available or at least easily found. While Sayers, Konkol, Turkel, and Elliott have done important work in the field, then, our project really pushes the boundaries between public and academic inquiry and critical making.

Of course, the projects listed here are more literary. There are many projects that incorporate 3D printing and/or 3D modeling with art history, museum studies, and architecture. At Coastal Carolina University, for instance, Katie Clary’s class scanned and then 3D printed artifacts from South Carolina for an exhibit that allows visitors to touch “artifacts” alongside looking at the originals which were protected by glass. Similarly, the well-received “Touch this Page!” exhibit 3D printed Boston Line Type, an early form of raised type for the blind (developed around the same time as Braille) so that visitors to the pop-up exhibits could physically interact with and feel the typeface. Sari Altschuler and David Weimer are just the most recent scholars to publish on this exhibit, writing a manifesto calling for Digital Humanists to “texture” the humanities.

We are responding to this call by adding our own type of “texture”--a tactile as opposed to a purely visual experience with Wells’s Floor Games and Little Wars. While our project builds on the foundations listed in this environmental scan, we are, once again, making these files available for download, facilitating access to the textured parts of our scholarship. In doing so, we are expanding the definition of a digital scholarly edition by incorporating analog elements. While Patrick Sahle notes that “a digital edition cannot be given in print without significant loss of content and functionality” (27), our edition blurs these boundaries. Printing actually adds to the functionality of the site. To reiterate, then, our project challenges dichotomies between the scholarly and the public, the digital and the analog, and the serious and the playful. We are, after all, encouraging play with toys that Wells and J.R. Sinclair once imagined, while still thinking critically about the gender and class ideologies embedded in their design.

Technical Feasibility Stover and I met with Laura Mandell to discuss the feasibility of this project. Since we have already printed one of the civilian miniatures, Laura agreed that we are well prepared for this project. Tim Swartz will design the 3D models with our feedback, and the Makerspace at Texas A&M University will do the printing.

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