Kristine Koyama

English - Literature and Cultural Theory, PhD

Plan: Literature and Cultural Theory, PhD

Achieved Degrees
BA, English, University of Central Florida, 2017
MA, English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2019

Interests

Nineteenth-century American, British, and Indigenous literatures; land-based and decolonial approaches to literary and cultural studies, childhood studies, coalition building, and activism. In particular, texts that rely on depictions of children, animals, and food (especially bread) to catalyse civic engagement and social movement.
The application of place and land-based pedagogies emergent from Indigenou worldviews, especially decolonial and anti-racist classroom and assessment practices.

Selected Publications

“True Women as Sacred Friends: Harriet Jacobs’s Model of Consent-Based White Allyship in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Journal of Consent-Based Performance. https://doi.org/10.46787/jcbp.v3i1.3900
“Decolonized Bodies of Land and Children: Sarah Winnemucca’s Landback Project in Life Among the Piutes.” Decolonizing Bodies: Stories of Embodied Resistance, Healing, and Liberation edited by Carolyn Ureña and Saiba Varma, Bloomsbury. [Forthcoming, December 2024]
“But I Should Say That Feeling is Believing”: Writing Empathetic Consciousness through Equine Disability in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions.” Women Who Write Animals: Female Literary Representations of the More-Than-Human World edited by Lorraine Kerslake and Diana Villanueva, Brill [Forthcoming, December 2024]
“The Invisible Power of Tutoring.” Midwest Writing Center Association Newsletter. November 2022.
“Veterans Legacy Program Curricular Materials: Harry Gittleman.” Published by the University of Central Florida and National Cemetery Administration as part of the Veteran’s Legacy Program’s curricular packet, Fall 2017, www.cem.va.gov/legacy/lessons.asp#UCF1.

Academic Awards

Conference Presentations

“Challenging the Norms of Academic Writing.” UWM’s Center for Academic Excellence Virtual Teaching and Learning Symposium, 2023.
“The Ecological Conscious of a Biblical Imagination: Torah Narratives as a Model for Acknowledging and Responding to Human-Generated Climate Disaster.” UWM Religious Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, 2024, proceedings published in UWM’s Digital Commons, 2020, [dc.uwm.edu/rsso/2020/panel2/1]dc.uwm.edu/rsso/2020/panel2/1.
“‘But a Business . . . it is Progressive!’: Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop as a Guide to the Technology of New Womanhood.” The 15th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
“A Thing's Matter: Vital Materialism and the Agency of the Nonhuman.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
“‘A Rich Network of Discourses’: Amish Tradition and Identity in Academic Writing.” Red River Graduate Student Conference, 2020.
“Empathy and the Exploited Victorian Body in Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty.” Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, 2019.
“Domestic and Professional Roles in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily of New Moon.” College English Association Annual Conference, 2018.

Workshops

“A Thing's Matter: Vital Materialism and the Agency of the Nonhuman.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, 2020.
“Toward Various Designs and Applications of Labor-Based Grading,” University of Milwaukee, English Department, January 2023.
“Why I Use Labor-Based Grading and How I Use It,” University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, English Department, 2022

Teaching Experience

ENGL1SH 100: Introduction to College Writing and Reading
ENGLISH 101: Introduction to College Writing (Fall 2020)
ENGLISH 102: College Writing and Research (Fall 2019-Spring 2023)
LGBT 200: Intro to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
ENGLISH 222: Introduction to English Literature from 1800 to Present (Fall 2022)
ENGLISH 215: Introduction to English Studies (Spring 2021, Summer 2022)