K-SAA Communications Fellows 2022-23
We are delighted to announce that two new K-SAA Communications Fellows and one K-SJ+ Fellow have signed on for the 2022-23 academic year.
These Fellows will assist the Director of Communications (Dr. Mariam Wassif) and the President (Dr. Kate Singer) in engaging with, and creating online content for, academic and non-academic communities interested in the Romantic period – especially those interested in the second generation of Romantic authors. They help to run the K-SAA Twitter, Blog, and YouTube Channel. The Keats-Shelley Journal+ Fellow will work with the editor of the journal, Jonathan Mulrooney, serving as liaison between the K-SJ Editorial Team and K-SAA Comms Team. The position will help produce content for the journal’s online presence, including K-SJ+, a platform that will supplement and highlight features from the journal’s print version.
We are delighted to announce that Shellie Audsley and Yu-hung Tien are joining us as Communications Fellows. We’re also excited to welcome the new K-SJ+ Fellow Dr. Kacie Wills. Read more about their upcoming plans below!
We’d like to thank all those who took the time to apply. We received several outstanding applications this year.
Please do get in touch with questions, comments, or pitches for new blog content! ksaacomm@gmail.com
Shellie Audsley
Shellie Audsley is set to begin her PhD on Romantic genre-mixing, recycling and transmediality at the University of Cambridge in October, using methods in the digital humanities to consider a paradoxical “forming’” of fragments in the nineteenth century. Her MPhil thesis (HKU) adapted a narratological lens to analyse the Romantics’ strategies for lyric-narrative synthesis and their ties to the sublime. Beyond tracing the Romantics’ aesthetic legacies in the immediate epochs, her goal as K-SAA Communications Fellow is to engage the wider academic and public communities in an ongoing series of digital activities designed to enhance access to crowd-sourced information and ideas surrounding Romanticism, especially in new and underexposed contexts: its influence, resistance, and aspects that have resonated through time, space and cultures.
Yu-hung Tien
Yu-hung Tien has a master’s degree in Romantic and Victorian Literary Studies from the University of Durham, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature from the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. His research focuses on British Romanticism and its transcultural legacies, with a particular interest in the receptions of John Keats.
Yu-hung has conducted a wide range of research surrounding Keats’ life and writing. He has recently published an article on the transatlantic poetic dialogues shared between Keats and Emily Dickinson in Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations, and presented at several international conferences. Later this year, Yu-hung will embark on a doctoral journey at the University of Edinburgh, exploring Keats’s literary heritage in the United States.
Outside of studies, Yu-hung also serves as a postgraduate representative for the British Association for Romantic Studies, and an active member of Taiwan’s Enlightenment and Romanticism Network. Being part of K-SAA’s Communications Team, Yu-hung aims to foster potential international collaborations, and to appreciate the legacies of Romanticism around the globe.
Dr. Kacie Wills (KS-J+)
Dr. Kacie Wills is Assistant Professor of English at Allan Hancock College. Her research and pedagogy are driven by a commitment to accessibility and to continuing the work of decolonizing literary studies through open and innovative scholarship in the digital humanities. She is the recipient of research grants from both the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the Huntington Library and is co-editor of the book, Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Routledge 2020). You can find her recent publications in Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH), Romanticism on the Net, and English Studies.
