Hannah Bowling
  • Ph.D. Program

Biography

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 the future of humanities scholarship. Her digital project, Blackspeare: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Shakespeare’s Afterlives in the Black Atlantic, 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 earned a number of certificates, including ones in Africana Studies, Digital Humanities (DH), and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL). Her research has been presented at numerous local and national conferences, winning her an interdepartmental teaching award in 2021 for innovative approaches to teaching synchronously online during COVID-19. She recently won a grant from the Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) to continue development on her digital project.

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), and as the resident digital humanist for the Texas Freedom Colonies Project (TxFCP). Additionally, she regularly contributes to the Digital Design for Student Success (D2S2) Group, in conjunction with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB), to create educational resources for first year composition courses in the college classroom.

Research Interests

Research Areas

  • Open Educational Resources
  • Shakespearean afterlives
  • Africana studies
  • Digital pedagogy
  • Instructional design

Educational Background

  • Masters of Arts in English, TAMU
  • Bachelor of Arts in English, ACU

Industry Experience

  • DIGITAL HUMANITIES (DH) EXPERIENCE

    • Summer 2023-PRESENT

    Digital Design for Student Success (D2S2)—Graduate Research Assistant Worked on a project funded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, conducting work that included researching existing curriculum, revising the existing ENGL 104 OER, creating tutorials, and other areas for development as they evolve.

    • Summer 2023

    Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR)—Graduate Research Assistant Transcribed and encoded playtexts as well as researching the texts to create relevant critical apparatuses for the Digital Restoration Drama project.

    • Spring 2021- Spring 2023

    The Texas Freedom Colonies Project (TxFCP)—Public History and Digital Humanities (DH) Assistant Assisted in research and logistical planning of museum exhibits, researched freedom colonies’ histories and cultural landscapes in the Texas Brazos Valley area, redesigned and maintained the TxFCP website, wrote and mailed quarterly newsletters, and otherwise collaborated on other tasks related to the preservation and perpetuation of freedom colonies in Texas: https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com/.

    • Fall 2021

    World Shakespeare Bibliography—Fellow Catalogued digital data on all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare: https://www.worldshakesbib.org/.

    GRADUATE SERVICE AND ORGANIZATIONS

    • Spring 2023-PRESENT

    English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), Co-President

    • Spring 2023

    English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), Undergraduate Studies Committee Representative

    • Fall 2022-Spring 2023

    English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), Graduate & Professional Student Government (GPSG) Representative

    • Fall 2021-PRESENT

    TAMU Honors Council, Member

    • Fall 2020-PRESENT

    Mentor to Incoming Graduate Students

    • Fall 2020-Spring 2021

    English Graduate Student Association (EGSA), Social Chair

Awards & Honors

  • Fall 2023 - Graduate Mentoring Academy (GMA) Fellow
  • Summer 2023 - Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) Summer Assistance Grant Awarded to continue development of dissertation OER project
  • Spring 2023 - Center of Integrated Teaching and Research as Learning (CIRTL) Teaching-as-Research (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.
  • 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”
  • Spring 2021 - Graduate Merit Teaching Award Earned for assuming greater teaching responsibilities, like designing syllabi and exams, for ENGL 337 (Southern Lit) and ENGL 365/RELS 360 (Bible as Lit).

Selected Publications

  • RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ACADEMIC, NON-REFEREED

    2022

    “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.

    2021

    “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.

    2019

    “A Survey and Critique of the Methodologies and Techniques Used in Abilene Christian University’s English as a Second Language Classrooms.” Honors College. 58. https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/honors/58.

     

    Other Publications

    PEDAGOGY PUBLICATIONS ACADEMIC, NON-REFEREED

    2023

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “Around the World in APA.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5151.

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “Documenting & Citing: APA Style.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5200.

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “Documenting & Citing: MLA Style.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5156.

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “General APA 7th ed format Worksheet.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5158.

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “General MLA 9th ed format Worksheet.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5159.

    Bowling, Hannah Elizabeth. “Grammar Bowl.” D2S2 OER. College Station: Texas A&M University, 2023. This work is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/courseware/lesson/5152.

    MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS ACADEMIC, REFEREED

    “‘Black performers more beautiful and more expressive’: Embodiments of Blackness in Voodoo Macbeth.” Cambridge Scholars Publishing (under review)

    “Dyer, Mary.” In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writings. Edited by Penelope Anderson and Whitney Sperrazza. Palgrave MacMillian (forthcoming publication)

     

    Presentations Conferences (Selected)

    • Fall 2023

    “Collaborating for Scalable Impact: Digital Design for Student Success.” Texas Conference for Student Success. 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).

    • Spring 2023

    “Emergent Participatory Teaching (EPT) Praxis in a non-ESL Setting: Utilizing ESL Methods in Native Speaker Classrooms.” TAMU English Department, Methods Panel.

    “‘We come and clearly learn how to die’: Articulating a Black Aesthetic in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy.” TAMU Student Research Week (SRW).

    “A Transgressive Haiti: Black and White Reactions to Voodoo Embodied on the Stage.” TAMU History Graduate Student Organization.

    • Fall 2022

    “A Black(faced) Macbeth.” Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA).

    “‘To see the statue of our queen’: Reading Mariology in the Temporality and Spatiality of The Winter’s Tale.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA).

     

    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.