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Meet Kacy
Professor, English and Writing
Education
2001 Baylor University, B.A.
2004 Baylor University, M.A.
2008 University of Mississippi, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Sex and Seduction in the Early American Republic
Literature of the Early American Republic
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
The Alternative American Renaissance
Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
The 鈥淔鈥 Word: Origins of American Feminism
Survey of American Literature to the Civil War
Academic Writing and Research
Career Specialties
Kacy Dowd Tillman researches loyalist women writers of the American Revolution and early American as well as contemporary sentmental fiction/romance writing.
Her first area of specialty is eighteenth century manuscript culture, specifically letter-writing and diary-keeping. Her book,听Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution.听(University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), is about how women used letters, journals and letter journals to construct and distribute their own definitions of loyalty during the war. Tillman also formerly researched loyalty, neutrality, disaffection and pacifism in the late eighteenth century. She has also published on early American literature (particularly sentimental fiction) and manuscript culture more broadly in听Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature, Southern Studies, Literature of the Early American Republic, Legacy, American Literary History听补苍诲听Early American Literature.
Her second area of specialty is Romantasy and its readers. She is currently working on a survey of contemporary Romantasy readers via interviews and focus groups; the project is tentatively titled Reading the Romantasy.听
Professional and Community Activities
Books
Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution, U of听Massachusetts P, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-62534-432-8
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Books
鈥淭he Limits and Liberty of Loyalty: Black Loyalism in the Book of Negroes,鈥 Early American Studies, 2024. Forthcoming.
鈥淚solation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature,鈥 American Literature, vol. 96, no. 3, 2024, 325鈥353.听
鈥淟onging and Belonging in the Age of Revolutions.鈥 Early American Literature, vol. 55, no. 3, 2020, pp. 835-844.听
鈥.鈥 Borealia: Early Canadian History. May 4, 2020.
鈥.鈥 Boreaila: Early Canadian History. May 6, 2020.听
鈥淐onstructing Female Loyalism.鈥 The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honors of Robert Calhoon. Eds. Rebecca Brannon and Joseph Moore. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
鈥淲riting Rape in the American Revolution,鈥 Sexing Histories of Revolution Roundtable, Age of Revolutions, April 17, 2017.
鈥淟oyalist Women and the Fight for the Right to Entry,鈥 Age of Revolutions, March 14, 2016.
鈥淧aper Bodies: Letters and Letter-Writing in the Early American Novel.鈥 Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature. 35.2 (2016): 123-144.
鈥淲omen Left Behind: Female loyalism, coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway鈥檚 Empire of Self鈥 in Women鈥檚 Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire Eds. Mary Balkun and Susan Imbarrato. New York: Palgrave, 2016. ISBN: 9781137559906
鈥淔ilial Piety in The History of Constantius and Pulchera.鈥 Just Teach One Teaching Series.听Common-Place. 13 June 2013.
鈥淲hat is a Female Loyalist?鈥 Common-Place. 13.4 (2013).
鈥淓liza Lucas Pinckney as Cultural Broker: Reconsidering a South Carolinian Legacy.鈥 Southern Studies. 18.2 (Fall-Winter 2011): 49-65.
鈥淭he Epistolary Salon: Examining Eighteenth-Century American Letter-Writing as a Vehicle for Female Political Engagement.鈥 Literature of the Early American Republic. 3 (2011): 62 鈥 80.
Reviews
Review of Imaginary Empires: Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature by Maria O鈥橫alley (2023). American Literary History. May 2023.听
Review of American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early听Republic (2019) by Daniel Diez Couch. Journal of the Early Republic. August 2022.
Review of Resisting Independence: Popular Loyalism in the Revolutionary British Atlantic (2020) by Brad A. Jones. Age of Revolutions. May 2021.
鈥淭he American Revolution in the Global Imagination.鈥 The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, vol. 61, no. 4, 2021. Review of Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution, edited by Maria O鈥橫alley and Denys Van Renen.听听
Review of Kelroy by Rebecca Rush. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 35, no. 1, 2018, pp. 106-108.
Review of The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, Ed. by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers. American Literary History, 2017. https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/alh_review_series_9
鈥淎 Nation Apart, Together,鈥 review of Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution. By Sarah Crabtree. Common-Place, vol. 17, no. 2.5, 2017. place.org/book/a-nation-apart-together/
Review of Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760 鈥 1860. Eds. by Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris. Early American Literature, vol. 47, no. 1, 2012, pp. 239-242.
Conference Presentations
鈥淭he Legacies and Aftermaths of Loyalism.鈥 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Philadelphia, PA. 2024. Panel Chair.
鈥淕amifying Honors Community through the ACE Points System.鈥 Florida Collegiate Honors Conference. Tampa, FL. 2024. Panel Chair and Presenter.听
鈥淚solation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature.鈥 Society of Early Americanists Conference. Washington, DC. 2023.
鈥淔ake News and the Rhetoric of Disease in Early American Literature.鈥 Early American Contexts for Twenty-First Century Woes Roundtable. Society of Early Americanists Conference. Atlanta, GA. 2021.听
鈥淭he Limits and Liberty of Loyalty: Black Loyalism in the Book of Negroes.鈥 Society of Early Americanists Special Topics Conference. Exeter, UK. 2020.
鈥淏uilding Bandersnatch like a Boss: How to Teach with Twine.鈥 Early American Caucus Panel. American Studies Association. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2019.听
鈥淪tripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution.鈥 President鈥檚 Panel on Forthcoming Scholarship in the Field (by invitation). American Historical Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. 2019.
"Coding Rape in the American Revolution: Trauma in the Loyalist Letters of Anna Rawle.鈥 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference. Denver, Colorado. 2018.
Panel Chair. Religion and Politics in Early America Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. 2018.听
鈥溾楾he Eyes of All People Are Upon Us鈥: The Uncomfortable Publics of Early America.鈥 Panel Chair. Society of Early Americanists Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017.
鈥淓lizabeth Fergusson鈥檚 Hyperlinked Salon.鈥 Elizabeth Fergusson and the American Salon.听Organizer and Presenter. Society of Early Americanists Conference. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017.
鈥淎merican Loyalists and the Quest to Stay Home and Stay American.鈥 Invited Respondent. Southern Historical Association. St. Petersburg, Florida. 2016.
鈥淲omen Left Behind: Grace Growden Galloway鈥檚 Empire of Self.鈥 Society of Early Americanists/Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference. Chicago, Illinois. 2015.
鈥Genius Assessment: Using Genius to Teach Analysis and Conduct Assessment.鈥 THATcamp Florida. Orlando, Florida. 2015.
鈥淯sing Illuminated Wikis to Foster Ethical Undergraduate Research.鈥 Genius Fellowship. New York City, New York. 2014.
鈥淪tripped: Female Loyalist Writers of the American Revolution.鈥 London and the Americas: Society of Early Americanists. London, England. 2014.
鈥淭eaching T(homas) Paine through RapGenius: Early American Literature and Collaborative Literacy.鈥 American Literature Association. Washington, DC. 2014.
鈥淔air Food Fights and the Silk Stocking Brigade, or Rivington's New-York Gazette on Mobs.鈥 Society of Early Americanists. Savannah, GA. 2013.
鈥溾楪reat Darkness Surrounded鈥: Rereading Elizabeth Ashbridge鈥檚 Account as Captivity Narrative.鈥 American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 2012.
鈥淔emale Loyalist Letter Journals.鈥 American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. 2012.听
鈥淭ories, Traitors, and Spies.鈥 University of Tampa Honors Symposium. Tampa, FL. 2012.听
鈥淔ailed Epistolarity in Early American Novels.鈥 Society of Early Americanists. Philadelphia, PA. 2011.
鈥淕oing Native: A Digital Immigrant鈥檚 Guide to Using Hybrid Wikis in the Classroom.鈥 South Central Modern Language Association. Fort Worth, TX. 2010.
鈥淒amned Tories of the Penny Post: Loyalist Women & the American Revolution.鈥 American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Albuquerque, NM. 2010.
鈥淭he Letters of Elizabeth Murray Smith Inman.鈥 Scholarly Tapas. Tampa, FL. 2009.
鈥淗yphenated Feminists: Gender & Cultural Difference in the Fictional Autobiographies of Maxine Hong Kingston, Isabelle Allende, and Marjane Satrapi.鈥 Florida Consortium for Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies. Tampa, FL. 2009.
鈥溾楽ouls Upon Paper鈥: The Eighteenth-Century Letter as Rhetorical Drag.鈥 American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA. 2008.
鈥溾榃hy Not a Woman?鈥: Examining Eighteenth-Century American Women鈥檚 Epistolarity through the Letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney.鈥 American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 2007.
鈥淟ions Writing History: Everyday Modes of Resistance in the Autobiographies of Mary Prince, Olaudah Equiano, and Frederick Douglass.鈥 South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 2006.
鈥淭he Mulatto as Exotic Other: The Black Grotesque in Passing Novels.鈥 South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. 2005.
鈥淎 Woman of Letters: Zora Neale Hurston as Autoethnographer.鈥 Humanities Conference. Cambridge, England. 2005.
鈥淔reaks Who Stare Back: Gothic Grotesques in Charles Brockden Brown鈥檚 Edgar Huntly.鈥 Southwest/Texas Pop Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. 2005.
鈥淔lannery O鈥機onnor鈥檚 Epistolary Identity.鈥 Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Chapel Hill, NC. 2003.
鈥淭he Paradox in Print of Mystery and Manners.鈥 Art and Soul. Baylor University. Waco, TX. 2003.
Organized Panels
鈥淕amifying Community in Honors through ACE Points.鈥 Florida Collegiate Honors Conference. Tampa, FL. 2024.
鈥淐rises in Contagions: Disease Logics, Infrastructures, & New Research in the Health Humanities.鈥 Society of Early Americanists Conference. Washington, DC. 2023.
鈥淩emembering Black Writers of the American Revolution.鈥 Society of Early Americanists Special Topics Conference. Exeter, UK. March 2021.
鈥淓lizabeth Fergusson and the American Salon.鈥 Society of Early Americanists. Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2016.
听鈥淓xiles, Emigrants, and Enemies: Outsiders of the American Revolution.鈥 London and the Americas: Society of Early Americanists Conference. London, England. July 2014.
鈥淔ailed Epistolarity/Corresponding Possibilities.鈥 Society of Early Americanists. Philadelphia, PA. 2011.
GUEST LECTURES AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
鈥淪tripped and Script,鈥 Keynote Speaker, Congressional Library of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 2024.听
鈥淟oyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution,鈥 Keynote Speaker, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Yorktown, Virginia, March 2022.
鈥淭he Information Contagion in Charlotte Temple,鈥 guest lecturer, Dr. Angie Calcaterra, University of North Texas, March 2021.
鈥淭he Limits and Liberty of Loyalism,鈥 Keynote Presentation, Consortium on the Revolutionary听Era. February 2021.
鈥淪tripped and Script,鈥 American Revolutionary Roundtable in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 2020.听
鈥淪cripted Silences in the diary of Deborah Norris Logan.鈥 Baylor University. Waco, Texas. November 2015.
鈥淟oyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution.鈥 Society of the Colonial Dames. Tampa, Florida. November 2015.