Hannah Bowling
- Areas of Speciality
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- Open Educational Resources
- Shakespearean afterlives
- Africana studies
- Digital pedagogy
- Instructional design
- Contact
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- (281) 620-8848
- hebowling@tamu.edu
- LAAH 505
- Professional Links
Education
Masters of Arts in English, TAMU
Bachelor of Arts in English, ACU
Bio
Hannah Elizabeth Bowling is an alumna of Abilene Christian University (ACU) and Instructor of Record in the English department at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation examines African diasporic adaptations of Shakespeare as articulations of the Black experience, looking towards teaching-as-research methodologies as a future for humanities scholarship.
During her time at Texas A&M, she has earned a number of interdisciplinary certificates, including ones in Africana Studies and Digital Humanities (DH). Her work as a digital humanist has been funded by organizations like the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR). Her digital project, Blackspeare, collates educational material for humanities scholars invested in teaching Shakespeare’s afterlives in the Black Atlantic. This OER points towards the possibilities inherent in open pedagogy as a theoretical framework by which to develop explicitly anti-racist pedagogical praxis in the digital age.
She has worked on a number of DH projects, including service as a Doctoral Research Fellow with the World Shakespeare Bibliography (WSB), a Research Assistant with Digital Restoration Drama (DRD), the resident digital humanist for the Texas Freedom Colonies Project (TxFCP), and contributor to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)’s Digital Design for Student Success (D2S2) Group.
Accomplishments
External Grants:
Spring 2024
Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
Awarded to travel and participate in Rising: A RaceB4Race Symposium
Institutional Grants:
Summer 2023
Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) Summer Assistance Grant
Awarded to continue development of dissertation OER project, Blackspeare
Fall 2021
Glasscock Notable Lecture Grant
Awarded to host and facilitate Dr. Jeremy Elliott’s lecture “Reading Narrative in Indigenous Rock Art at Paint Rock, TX”
Honors and Awards
Research Awards:
- Spring 2024-PRESENT
Race and Ethnic Studies Research Leadership Program
-Awarded to lead an undergraduate research team for two semesters that facilitated the revision, editing, and publication of the Blackspeare Project.
- Fall 2023
3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)
-Participated as a finalist in 3MT, a university-wide public-oriented research competition, on Black Shakespeare adaptations and the importance of narrative-based research ______________________________________________________________________________________
Teaching Awards:
- Spring 2024-PRESENT
Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Graduate Student Leadership Fellowship
-Awarded funding to assist the Teaching-as-Research (TAR) program at Texas A&M based on exemplary performance in the TAR program.
-Promoted the program, created and distributed marketing materials, reviewed applications, assisted with learning community logistics, and otherwise helped CIRTL staff run a successful 2024-2025 TAR program.
- Spring 2023-Spring 2024
CIRTL TAR Fellowship
-Awarded funding to develop a research project on teaching in non-major specific English courses for the 2023-2024 academic school year for publication
- Spring 2021
Graduate Merit Teaching Award
-Earned for assuming greater teaching responsibilities, such as designing syllabi and exams, for ENGL 337 (Southern Lit) and ENGL 365/RELS 360 (Bible as Lit)
Publications
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS
Academic, Open-Access & Digital Humanities
Summer 2024
Blackspeare: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Shakespeare’s Afterlives in the Black Atlantic. Pilot ed., Pressbooks, 2024. (forthcoming publication)
Academic, Referred
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“‘Black performers more beautiful and more expressive’: Embodiments of Blackness in Voodoo Macbeth.” Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (accepted, forthcoming publication.)
“Dyer, Mary.” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writings. Edited by Penelope Anderson and Whitney Sperrazza. Palgrave MacMillian. (accepted, forthcoming publication.)
Presentations Conferences (Selected)
Spring 2024
“Intercessor or Nag? Reimagining the Female Saint of Medieval Drama in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays.” International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo).
“The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars.” Global Digital Humanities Symposium. Virtual.
Fall 2023
“Collaborating for Scalable Impact: Digital Design for Student Success.” Texas Conference for Student Success (TXCSS).
Collaborative presentation with Christopher Manes, Kimberly Stelly, Sarah LeMire, Gwendolyn Morel, and Terri Pantuso
“‘This thing of darkness’: An Afro-Pessimistic Rereading of Julie Taymor’s The Tempest.” British Graduate Shakespeare Conference (BritGrad Festival)
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GRADUATE SERVICE
Summer 2022
-Contributed to the development of the 1st edition of Texas A&M’s ENGL 203 OER curriculum by submitting an example short essay with instructor feedback
“Short Story: ‘Cry shame against me, yet I’ll speak’: The Silent and Speaking Emilia of Othello.” In Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing. 1st ed. Edited by Claire Carly-Miles, Sarah LeMire, Kathy Christie Anders, Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt, R. Paul Cooper, and Matt McKinney. College Station: Texas A&M University. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Summer 2021
-Contributed to the development of the 1st edition of Texas A&M’s ENGL 203 OER curriculum by submitting an example short essay with instructor feedback “Short Story: ‘Blood for Blood’: Marital Conflict in ‘A Red Girl’s Reasoning.’” In Surface and Subtext: Literature, Research, Writing. Pilot ed. Edited by Claire Carly-Miles, Sarah LeMire, Kathy Christie Anders, Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt, R. Paul Cooper, and Matt McKinney. College Station: Texas A&M University. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Fall 2021-PRESENT TAMU
Honors Council, Graduate Student Representative
Invited Presentations (Selected)
- Spring 2023
ENGL 262.500 (Introduction to Latinx Literary Studies), TAMU — Guest Speaker
Presented at a roundtable on the meaning of “Digital Humanities” and on work with the Texas Freedom Colonies Project (TxFCP).
BYOR (Bring Your Own Research), TAMU Graduate and Professional School Government (GPSG) — Guest Speaker
Presented dissertation research to multidisciplinary audience
- Spring 2022
ENGL 203.519 (Writing about Literature), TAMU — Guest Speaker
Lectured on religious tensions and motifs in William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.
ENGL 203.525 (Writing about Literature), TAMU — Guest Speaker
Presented at roundtable on the meaning of “Digital Humanities” and on personal and professional projects.
ENGL 203.525 (Writing about Literature), TAMU — Guest Speaker
Lectured on early modern England’s anti-Semitism, Protestantism, and Catholicism relative to William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.