Rowan Bayne

rowan-bayne
Research Interests: Twentieth-century American literature and culture, gender and sexuality, African American literature, critical theory, literature and the social sciences

Biography

I am a PhD candidate, Blair Dissertation-Year Fellow, and Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow (2012-2016) in English. I was also a preceptor for the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH), a teaching consultant with the Chicago Center for Teaching, and a College Core writing tutor. I have taught at the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the University of Alberta. My dissertation, "On the Spectrum: Genealogy of a Form of Differentiation," studies emergent representations of continuous and gradated identity classifications—of sexuality, race, gender—across aesthetic and social-scientific contexts.

I received my MA and BA Hons. degrees from the University of Alberta. Prior to graduate school, I worked in municipal politics.

Dissertation Title

"On the Spectrum: Genealogy of a Form of Differentiation"

Workshops

20th and 21st Century Workshop (co-founder/-coordinator, 2015-2016); Post-1945 Workshop (co-founder/-coordinator, 2014-2015)

Teaching

As sole instructor:

  • Surveillance amp& Society (Fall 2018)
  • The Long 1980s (Winter 2018)
  • Critical Thinking (Spring 2017)
  • Communications (2016-2017)

As course assistant:

  • MAPH: Foundations of Interpretive Theory (Fall 2018)
  • Introduction to Fiction: Middlemarch (Spring 2016)
  •  Black in the City (Winter 2016)
  • Introduction to Fiction (Spring 2015)