Curriculum Vitae

Teacher. Writer. Player of Games.

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Kevin Gallin, PhD

I am a writer, researcher, and group facilitator who investigates the way genre and genre fiction shapes how we view the world around us, especially how we reckon with the cultural and political realities forced by globalization.

My previous research areas include Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, The Novel, Genre Theory (especially historical fiction, detective fiction, and scifi and fantasy), Global Modernism(s), Irish literature, and literary cultures.

I defended my dissertation at the end of March, and graduated in May 2022.

Education

Teaching

Instructor of Record
Duke University
– Literary Adaptation, Spring 2022
– The Genre Turn (Criticism, Theory, Methodology), Fall 2021
– Not-So-Ancient Aliens, Spring 2020
– SciFi Worldbuilding (Duke Youth Programs), Summer 2021
University of Notre Dame
– Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric, AY 2014-15

Teaching Assistantships / Apprenticeships
– Science Fiction Film, Fall 2019
– Classics of American Literature, Spring 2019
– Living With Others, Fall 2019
– Shakespeare After 1600, Spring 2018
– The Pursuit of Happiness, Spring 2017
– The Contemporary Novel and the Global Context, Fall 2016

Writing Consultant
Thompson Writing Program, Fall 2017, Summer 2018

Teach For America
Corps Member Advisor (Teacher Coach)
– Delta Summer Institute, Summers 2012, ’13, ’14
Corps Member, 10th Grade ELA Teacher
– New Orleans Charter Science and Math HS, 2010-2013

Publications

“Cromwell on the World Stage: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and the Historical Novel After Globalization.” English Literary History (ELH), accepted, forthcoming.

“Plot Points: A Review of Msande Ntshanga’s Triangulum.” The Carolina Quarterly, 69.3 Spring 2020.

Conference Presentations

“Staging the World: Wolf Hall, the Historical Novel, and the Global Nation State.” Paper presented at “An Overflow of Meaning: Reading and Re-Reading Hilary Mantel,” conference at the Huntington Library, October 2021. (Stream recording here, beginning at 1:07:00.)

“Our World is Already Built: The SciFi Underpinnings of World Literature.” Paper presented at SFRA annual conference, June 2021.

“Working the Case: Detective Fiction and Noticing the Nation in China Miéville’s The City & The City.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), virtual proceedings, April 2021.

‘“Links with Bygone Days of Yore’: Joyce, Genre, and Contemporary Global Fiction.” Paper presented at the Modernist Studies Ireland Inaugural Conference, National University of Ireland, Galway, May 2019.

“Doors to Anywhere: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and the Unmaking of Borders.” Paper presented at ACLA, Washington, D.C., March 2019.

“Writing Irishness Back In: Fictionality, Experimental Form, and Violence in City of Bohane and Here Are the Young Men.” Paper presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Notre Dame, IN, April 2016.

“Reality After Capitalism: Ken Kalfus’s Equilateral and the End of Interpretation.” Paper presented at the English Graduate Student Association Conference, Notre Dame, IN, March 2015.

Departmental Service

Departmental Representative, Graduate English Association, 2016-18
Graduate Organizer, Cinema & Modernity Working Group, AY 2017-18
Member, NOVEL Symposium Planning Committee, Fall 2016, 2017, 2018
Departmental Representative, Graduate and Professional Student Council, 2015-2017
Production Assistant, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, vols. 50, 52, and 54.

Additional Activities

Academic Mentor for Student Athletes, Duke Athletic Department, AY 2019-2020

Library Receipts Assistant, Duke Library Collections, Summer & Fall 2019

Writer and Host, Online Zoom Trivia Nights, March 2020 – present

Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master, Summer 2020 – present

Languages

Spanish – Proficient in reading, speaking and writing.

Modern Irish – Proficient in reading, speaking and writing.

French – Can read with dictionary