Education

University of California Riverside, Ph.D. English

California State University Long Beach, MA English

Chapman University, BFA Creative Writing

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Books

    Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe, co-editor, Routledge, 2020. https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-the-Art-and-Science-of-Collecting-in-Eighteenth-Century-Europe/Leis-Wills/p/book/9780367856663 

    Peer-Reviewed Articles

    “’It is easy making a lie; the contradicting of which the next day will make another paragraph’: The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman and the Critique of the British Colonial Print Matrix,” English Studies, vol. 102, issue 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1866310

    “Visualizing Sarah Sophia Banks’ African Coins,” co-author, Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement & Humanities, vol. 1, issue, 1 (2020)https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.1d32a4b3

    “Research Interrupted: A Reflection on Digitization and Access to Ephemeral Materials on Ballooning in the Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks,” co-author, Romanticism on the Net. https://ronjournal.org/s/6420

    Book Chapters

    “Visualizing the Indigenous Pacific,” The Edinburgh Companion to Romanticism and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press. (forthcoming: 2022)

    “Sarah Sophia Banks’s Coin Collection: Female Networks of Exchange,” co-author, Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Routledge, 2020.

    Short Critical and Creative Work

    “Contraries and the Stomach,” Keats Letters Project, Nov. 30, 2020. http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/remember-me-to-all-friends/

    “Romantic Fancy in the Context of Pacific Exploration,” The Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. 68 (2019). muse.jhu.edu/article/771186.

    “Wherever the Unknown is sown with stars: Keats and the Creative Imagination,” co-author, Keats Letters Project, Oct. 8, 2018.
    http://keatslettersproject.com/correspondence/wherever-the-unknown-is-sown-with-stars-keats-and-the-creative-imagination/

    Book Reviews

    “Samantha Matthews’, Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture,” Romantic Circles Reviews and Receptions. https://romantic-circles.org/reviews-blog/samantha-matthews-album-verses-and-romantic-literary-culture-poetry-manuscript-print

    Academic Blogs

    “What Are You Reading?” The Keats-Shelley Association of America Blog
    https://k-saa.org/what-are-you-reading-kacie-wills/

    “Sarah Sophia Banks’s Ballooning Scrapbook and the Science of Popular Spectacle,” The British Library Untold Lives Blog
    https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2018/06/sarah-sophia-bankss-ballooning-scrapbook-and-the-science-of-popular-spectacle.html

    Projects

    Digital Project

    Exploring the Collections of Sarah Sophia Banks, created with Erica Hayes, MLS, MIS, MFA,  sarahsophiabanks.com

    Memberships

    American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

    • Digital Humanities Caucus


    Keats-Shelley Association of America

    Modern Language Association

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