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Kayla Walker Edin

Associate chair, liberal arts

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Southern Methodist University
  • M.A., English, Portland State University
  • B.A., English, Seattle Pacific University

Credentials

Selected academic experience

  • Associate chair of Liberal Arts and professor of English, Fall 2022—present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Associate professor of English and humanities, 2013–22
    Director, Women's and Gender Studies program, 2015–22, Milligan College, Milligan, TN
  • Hughes Fellow, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. 2007–12
  • Assistant director of writing, 2004–05
    Graduate assistant, 2003–05, Portland State University, Portland, OR

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Philips Fund Grant recipient, 2019–20 (cancelled because of COVID-19 travel restrictions)

Organizations

  • Society for Literature, Science, and Arts
  • Modern Language Association
  • Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Publications and presentations

Selected publications, presentations, and fellowships

  • "Chaucer and Consent," panel: Repurposing Chaucer presented at Chaucer Society, Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Jan. 9–12, 2020.
  • "Writing through Anxiety at Graduate School," presented at Graduate Studies, Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, Jan 9–12, 2020.
  • "'I will look like your friend'": Remaking the New Woman in the short fiction of Sui Sin Far.," presented at 18th- and 19th-century British Women Writers Conference (BWWC), Austin, TX, April 11–15, 2018.
  • "The Wisdom of Time," presented at Faculty Chapel Series, Seeger Chapel, Milligan College, Milligan, TN, Feb. 9, 2017.
  • "'What nature never intended her to be': Transitioning in Sui Sin Far's Short Fiction," presented at Society for Literature, Science, and Arts (SLSA) Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 4–6, 2016.
  • Facilitator, "Writing Self and Other," at Krista Conference for Global Citizenship, Christian Leadership Conference, Spokane, WA, May 25–27, 2016.
  • "Art as Story: French Art of 1650–1800," Kress Fellow, CIC Seminar, Portland, OR, July 2015.
  • "Toddlers and the Tenure Track: Best Practices for Protecting Academic Parents," presented at Modem Language Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, Jan. 9–12, 2014.
  • "'Acting instantly his part': Moments of Being ( at work) in To the Lighthouse," presented at Modern Language Association, Annual Conference, Boston, MA, Jan. 3–6, 2013.
  • "'What I want for myself:' Built Space and Artistic Vision in Sarah Grand, Ada Radford, and Virginia Woolf," presented at British Women Writers Conference, Annual Conference, Boulder, CO, June 7–10, 2012.
  • "'At peace with all men': Female Intrusion and Alternative Authorship in Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," presented at South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Annual Conference, Hot Springs, AR, Oct. 27–29, 2011.
  • "'It is impossible that all this should be lost': Victorian Narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Victorian Network 3.1, Summer 2011, 41–50.
  • "Cultural Documents and Illustrations: Contextualizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Third Edition. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 2011, 97–134.
  • "A Critical History of Heart of Darkness," co-authored with Ross Murfin. Heart of Darkness: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism. Third Edition. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 2011, 137–162.
  • "'It is impossible that all this should be lost': Victorian Narrative in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness," Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900, U of Liverpool, 2010.
  • Co-authored with Stacy Cherones and Andrea Luttrell Keeth, "Gender and Leadership: Developing, Mobilizing, and Sustaining a female Graduate Community," Succeeding as Women in Higher Education, SUNY-Cortland, 2009.

Invited lectures

  • "Jane Austen on Stage," Zoom lecture for Sherwood High School drama, March 2021.