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Hannah Bowling

Ph.D. Program
Areas of Speciality
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Shakespearean afterlives
  • Africana studies
  • Digital pedagogy
  • Instructional design
Contact
  • (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

20XX

“‘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.