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

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Bain, Gracie. “‘Cobweb of Untruths’: Revising Jack the Ripper in The Revelation of Jack the Ripper.” Authors in Adaptation, edited by Kristen Figgins. Palgrave, 2027.

Bain, Gracie, Kristen Figgins, James Fleury, Julie Grossman, Kathryn J. McClain, Seda Öz, and Rebecca Raddatz. “Adapting the Academy: The Communal Turn in Adaptation Studies.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 54, no. 1, 2026.

Bain, Gracie. “Jack the Ripper in Television.”The Routledge Handbook to Jack the Ripper Studies, edited by Anne-Marie Kilday, David Nash, Katherine D. Watson. Routledge, 2025.

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 Professor, English, Nazareth University (2026-present)

ENGL.Q*139: Transmedia Storytelling

ENGL.Q*127: Power of Narrative: Intro to Monsters

ENGL*210: Studies in British Literature

Assistant Teaching Professor, First-Year Composition, University of Oklahoma (Norman) 2024-2026

Writing Courses

ENGL 1113: Composition One

ENGL 1213: Composition Two

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

Gender Courses

GNST 2003/GNST 2003H: Introduction to Gender

GNST 3343: Gender and Digital Storytelling

Literature Courses
ENGL 2043: Rethinking Literature: Detective Fiction

WLIT 1113: World Literature I

WLIT 1123: World Literature II

Writing Courses

ENGL 1013: Composition I

ENGL 1023: Composition II

WCOB 1011: Writing with Integrity for the Academic World

Additional Course Development

Created “GNST 4983: Gender and Popular Culture” syllabus, University of Arkansas

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. “Editing and Peer Reviewing Non-Traditional Scholarship: from Rough Cuts to Cutting-edge New Releases.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago (2026)

“‘Sherlock Holmes is Dead!’ Tabletop Board Games and the Neo-Victorian.” Literature/Film Association & The Association of Adaptation Studies Joint Online Conference, Online (2026)

“Uncomfortable Legacies: Adapting Jack the Ripper in Fiction.” North American Association of Victorian Studies, Washington, D.C. (2025)

“‘Unsympathetic Objects of Pity’: Death and Bodies in Jack the Ripper Fiction.” (Untrue) True Crime: Historicising, Contextualising, Rewriting, Virtual (2025)

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/Film Association, 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)

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.