EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, University of Arkansas, May 2024

Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies

Dissertation Title: “Ripperature: Crossing Gender and Genre” 

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Director: Dr. Lissette Lopez Szwydky

M.A. in English, University of Arkansas, May 2019 

Specialization: Women and Gender Studies

Thesis: “Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction” 

Director: Dr. Sean Dempsey

B.A. in English and Philosophy, Arkansas State University, May 2017 

Minor: Women and Gender Studies

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Bain, Gracie. “Jack the Ripper in Television.” The Routledge Handbook to Jack the Ripper Studies, Forthcoming.

Bain, Gracie. “Practicing Public Humanities: Reflecting on a Podcast Dissertation.” Public Humanities, 2025.

Bain, Gracie. “Jill the Ripper: Adapting Gender in Jack the Ripper Narratives.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 88, no. 4, 2023, pp. 87-104.

Bain, Gracie. “Frankenbitch[es]: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film.” Literature/Film Quarterly. vol. 50, no. 4, 2022.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Teaching Professor, First-Year Composition, University of Oklahoma (Norman) 2024-present

Writing Courses

ENGL 1113: Composition One

Course Objectives: By the end of the course, students learn key skills, such as rhetorical listening and critical inquiry, that allow them to consider the worldviews that inform public arguments. By examining their own values, the values that inform groups, and the worldviews of those who they disagree with, students actively practice slowing down argumentation. Rather than arguing immediately with the “opposition,” our student are taught to spend time listening to gain a better understanding of another’s persepctive. The emphasis placed on understanding the motivations behind beliefs, opinions, and actions in English 1113 prepares students to continue with the slow argument process in English 1213.

Instructor of Record, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), 2017-2024

Gender Courses

GNST 2003/GNST 2003H: Introduction to Gender

Course objectives: Explore the relationship that exists between gender, race, class, and sexual orientation, examine how those intersections function as rhetorically and historically connected dimensions of human behavior, Connect course concepts to popular culture

GNST 3343: Gender and Digital Storytelling (course created by G. Bain)

Course objectives: Articulate how gender and other embodied identities shape users’ experiences with digital media technologies, Identify ways that digital media shape understandings of gender, Explain the importance of intersectional feminism, Discuss media literacy in contemporary terms in light of 21st-century developments in online cultural production and new media, Develop a voice on these issues, expressed in relevant new media formats

Literature Courses
ENGL 2043: Rethinking Literature: Detective Fiction (course created by G. Bain)

Course objectives: Develop and/or improve their critical literacy through an active engagement with various forms of texts (including multimodal texts), Gain a better understanding of the shifting terrain of “Literature” and canon-making, Develop their communication skills through class discussions and assignments

WLIT 1113: World Literature I

Course objectives: Analyze and criticize texts from a variety of cultures and genres written before 1675, analyze or create adaptation of text written before 1675, integrate cultural and historical context in literary analysis

WLIT 1123: World Literature II

Course objectives: Analyze and criticize texts from a variety of cultures and genres written after 1675, analyze or create adaptation of text written after 1675, integrate cultural and historical context in literary analysis

Writing Courses

ENGL 1013: Composition I

Course objectives: Identify and evaluate arguments, analyze rhetorical strategies, revise assignments over the course of the semester

ENGL 1023: Composition II

Course objectives: Evaluate and experiment with variety of rhetorical strategies and genres, use electronic resources to support library research

WCOB 1011: Writing with Integrity for the Academic World

Course objectives: Be able to identify and define key concepts of academic integrity, plagiarism, ethics, intellectual property, and original writing, Discover how to cite sources appropriately in-text, Explain the consequences of plagiarism, accidental or intentional, including the institutional sanctioning process and farther-reaching legal, professional, financial, and other consequences, Examine the writing process and develop writing schedules that accommodate the demands of academic writing at the University level, Perform research effectively by collecting pertinent data and learning about citation tools, Apply to writing situations the ethical decision-making processes and the ideological frameworks of intellectual property and academic integrity, Demonstrate competence in paraphrasing, quotation, and summary attribution through the completion of a research paper, Apply the principles of ethics and intellectual property to a real-life situation in an in-class presentation

Additional Course Development

Created “GNST 4983: Gender and Popular Culture” syllabus, University of Arkansas Course objectives: Identify interdisciplinary frameworks related to gender, describe and analyze elements of popular culture using theories of gender, sexuality, race, and class, define key terms related to gender and popular culture, write and speak effectively about the relationship between popular culture and gender, create a project using concepts from course

Assignment creation, “FBC business brief,” Freshman Business Connections, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville)

PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP

PODCASTING

Sound Editor, Adaptation Today, https://feeds.captivate.fm/adaptation-today/, 2024-present.

Host, Sound Editor, Writer, Producer, Ripperature: Building the Myth, https://open.spotify.com/show/3Wrk8iWkOI60bVzOBdTtbV?si=3f6876895862422d&nd=1, 2023-present.

Co-host, Walton Biz Talk Podcast, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas, https://bizcomm.uark.edu/biz-talk-podcast/, 2022-2023.

Guest, “Publishing as a Graduate Student,” Whatever We Are Calling this Podcast, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/clcs/episodes/S2-E9-Publishing-as-a-graduate-student-e20barc, 2023

Guest, “Non-traditional Dissertation,” Whatever We Are Calling This Podcast, https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/clcs/episodes/Season-2-Episode-8-Non-traditional-dissertation-e 1vurkp/a-a9enh8t, 2023.

BLOGS

Bain, Gracie. “Glossary Assignment: Understanding Key Terms.” The TA Office, 13. Feb. 2020, University of Arkansas, https://englishta.uark.edu/glossary-assignment-understanding-key-terms/.

Bain, Gracie. “Romantic Reimagining: Adapting Mary Shelley’s Female Monster.” BARS Romantic Reimaginings, British Association of Romantic Studies, 4. Nov. 2019, www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=2703.

DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS

Literature/Film Association Travel Award, Literature/Film Association (2024)

Awarded for travel funding based on a) financial need and b) scholarly promise of paper

Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English, University of Arkansas (2023)

Awarded by English Department for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore

Bridge Fellowship, GNST, University of Arkansas (2023)

Competitive award from Gender Studies Program for research support

Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English, University of Arkansas (2022)

Awarded by English Department for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore

Bridge Fellowship, GNST, University of Arkansas (2022)

Awarded by Gender Studies Program for research support

Chris Vanen Bossche Graduate Student Travel Award, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (2022)

Awarded by Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies organization for travel to INCS conference

Nominated for Yowell Teaching Award, University of Arkansas (2021)

Awarded to graduate assistant in recognition of outstanding teaching service

Ben Kimpel Memorial Award, University of Arkansas (2021)

Awarded by English Department for literary scholarship

Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English, University of Arkansas (2020)

Awarded by English Department for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore

Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, University of Arkansas (2019)

Awarded by Graduate School, nominated by English department for entry into graduate school

PRESENTATIONS

CONFERENCES

Roundtable: Adaptation Today, Slightly Aged. LFA/AAS: To be Continued, Virtual (2025).

Next-Generation Research in English: A Graduate Student Showcase. Modern Language Association, New Orleans, Louisiana (2025).

“‘Twas the Way She Was Done’: Policing Bodies in From Hell (2001).” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Detroit, Michigan (2024)

“‘Delightfully Naughty’: Historical Empathy in A Study in Terror.” Literature/FilmAssociation, York, Pennsylvania (2024)

“Returning to Jack the Ripper: The Whitechapel Murderer in Fiction.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia (2023)

Bridge Fellows, GNST Roundtable, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, (2023)

“Adapting the Academy: My Podcast Dissertation.” Literature Film Quarterly/Association of Adaptation Studies, Virtual (2023)

“Jill the Ripper: Adapting the Whitechapel Murders.” SAMLA, Virtual (2022) 

Bridge Fellows, GNST Roundtable, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, (2022)

“Is Jack Back? Adaptive Hauntings of Jack the Ripper.” Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (2022)

“Monsters of the Metropolis: Neo-Victorian Mapping of the City.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Salt Lake City, Utah (2022)

“Teaching Genre with Adaptations.” Teaching Composition Workshop Series. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (2021)

“Victorian Blood: Adapting Gender and Bodies in Neo-Victorian Literature.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Virtual (2021)

“Bad Witnesses: Trauma and Space in The Book of Disappearance and The Queue.” Graduate Students in English (GSE) Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Arkansas (2021)

“There’s a Fanfic for that: Adapting the Erotic in Lady Audley’s Secret.” Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA (2020). Conference Canceled due to COVID-19.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Invited speaker to Walton Business Communication Lab, “Gender in the Workplace” workshop, University of Arkansas (2024)

Invited speaker to Digital Storytelling, University of Arkansas (2022) 

Invited to speaker to Casebook: Jack the Ripper Conference (2022)

Invited speaker to Introduction to Graduate Studies Class, University of Arkansas (2021)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Founding Co-Editor, Adaptation Today, https://adaptationtoday.com/

Meet and organize events with founding editors, edit the Adaptation Today podcast

Graduate Assistant, Business Communication Lab, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas (2022-2023)

Communication tutor (2021-2023), trained 8 new tutors for CRLA accreditation, managed 14 tutor schedules, created course curriculum for course partnerships, gave frequent presentations (from 10 attendees to 200 attendees), assessed oral communication for AACSB accreditation, created Tutor Notes for assignments, evaluated and graded student writing

Presentations:

Walton Orientation Week BCL introduction (classroom of 20), Resume and Interviewing Basics (70 attendees), Writing Linkedin Articles (classroom of 20), Professional Communication (10 attendees), Freshman Business Connections Business Brief (200 attendees), How to give Presentations (30 attendees)

Researcher, Cohost, Walton Biz Talk Podcast, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas https://bizcomm.uark.edu/biz-talk-podcast/, (2022-2023)

Researched and wrote podcast scripts, researched interviewees, scheduled interviews, conducted interviews

Graduate Assistant, University of Arkansas, Undergraduate English program (2022)

Assisted the Director of the Undergraduate Program in undergraduate recruitment, community building, and administration

SERVICE

President, Lavender Society, University of Arkansas (2023-2034)

Organize events to create community spaces for LGBTQIA students at University of Arkansas, organize and run meetings

Mentor, GSE-sponsored Mentorship Program, University of Arkansas (2022-2023) 

Mentored two students (one Ph.D. and one MA).

President, Sigma Tau Delta, University of Arkansas (2021-2022)

Organized members, performed administration work, planned events. 

President, Graduate Students in English, University of Arkansas (2021-2022)

Planned and ran monthly meetings, organized events such as Student/Faculty events, supported 10 officers, planned annual Graduate Students in English conference, built community through various programs like the GSE mentorship program.

Ph.D. Liaison, Graduate Students in English, University of Arkansas (2019-2021) 

Organized degree-specific events, supported graduate population.