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Dr. Kylie Korsnack

She/Her
Assistant Director, Teaching and Scholarship Hub
  • Profile

    Dr. Kylie Korsnack is the Assistant Director in the Teaching and Scholarship Hub. Kylie develops programming and consults with faculty on topics related to teaching and learning. Her specialties include inclusive and equitable teaching, course design, alternative assessment, facilitated course assessments, and student-faculty partnerships. She works closely with new FYS instructors and leads the Faculty Hub’s inclusive pedagogy initiatives, including co-directing the inclusive pedagogy partnership program. Kylie’s research background is in literary studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning, and she has taught undergraduate courses in world literature, science fiction/fantasy, climate fiction, and first-year writing.

    Kylie holds a PhD in English (Global Anglophone Literature) from Vanderbilt University, a MA in English from the University of Alabama-Huntsville, and a B.S. in Adolescent and Young Adult Education from Bowling Green State University. Prior to joining the University of Richmond, Kylie worked as a graduate fellow in Vanderbilt’s Center for Teaching and as a postdoctoral fellow in Berea College’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

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    • Presentations

      Korsnack, K. (2024, Summer) Teaching Climate Change. [Reading Group]. Associated Colleges of the South.

      Korsnack, K., Oware, M., Norris, M., Ready, E., and Moe, M*. (2024, May) Adopting a partnership mindset: Co-creating inclusive classroom experiences. [Workshop]. Innovations in Pedagogy Summit. University of Virginia.

      Korsnack, K., Norris, M., & Matthews, G*. (2024, February) Lessons in partnership: Piloting an inclusive pedagogy partnership program. [Poster Presentation]. Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Virginia Tech.

      Korsnack, K., Moe, M.*, & Norris, M. (2023, June) Partnership-in-Progress: Early Snapshots of a Pedagogical Partnership Program [Ignite Presentation]. Conference on Engaged Learning. Elon University.

      Korsnack, K., and Maynard, K. (2023, Summer) Writing with Pleasure. [Reading Group]. Associated Colleges of the South.

      Gruner, L., Berroth, E., Gupta, N., Korsnack, K., & Maurantonio, N. (2022, Summer) Inclusive Assessment Practices for Flexibility, Rigor, and Equity. [Working Group] Associated Colleges of the South.

      Korsnack, K. and FitzPatrick, J. (2022, June) Disanthropocentric Climate Fiction: Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon as Turn of Tide. [Paper Presentation]. Science Fiction Research Association. University of Oslo. Virtual Conference

      Korsnack, K, and Bell, A. (2022, November). Morning Blend and Flexible Faculty Development. In Small Colleges Carousel Session. [Carousel Presentation]. POD Network Conference 2022, Seattle, WA.

      Korsnack, K. and Oxner, A. (2021, July) Social Annotation as a Signature Pedagogy of the Humanities[Research Seminar]. Humanities Pedagogy Collective Conference, Stanford Center for Teaching & Learning, Virtual Conference.

      Hurtado, C.M. Brinkerhoff, J., Cadavid, E., Gordon, L., Korsnack, K., Ng, B., Sahm, B, & Teymuroglu, Z. (2021, Summer) Fostering a sense of belonging in the classroom. [Working Group] Associated Colleges of the South.

      Korsnack, K. (2021, March). Technological Displacement and Innovative Failure in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology. [Paper Presentation] International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL. Virtual Conference

      Brazell, R., Korsnack, K., McArthur, K., & Sievers, J. (2020, July). Ready When You Are: Flexible Delivery and Excellent Pedagogy in Blended Delivery, Active Learning Classes. [Virtual Workshop] Associated Colleges of the South.

      Korsnack, K, Hall, L., Peach, A., Mullins, S., Warren, W., & Yewitt, J. (2020, May). “You might consider…”: Building Community and Connection Through Student-Faculty-Staff Partnerships. [Roundtable] Pedagogicon, Eastern Kentucky University, Virtual Conference.

      Fedesco, H., Korsnack, K., & Oxner, A. (2019, November). Utilizing graduate students as instructors in the Certificate in College Teaching program. In Graduate and Postdoc Development Showcase. [Showcase Presentation] POD Network Conference 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.

      Korsnack, K. (2019, June). Reconsidering Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Antebellum South Time Story.’ [Paper Presentation]. Science Fiction Research Association. Chaminade University.

      Korsnack, K. (2019, April). Writing Between Worlds in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. In Trans-Area Literature Collective Symposium [Invited Paper Presentation] Vanderbilt University.

      Korsnack K. (2019 March) Fragmentary Futures: Traveling through Time with William Gibson [Paper Presentation] International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL.

      Frost, A., Grimm, C., Hibbard, L., & Korsnack, K. (2018, May) Phronetic G-TAHs in a Frenetic World: A Cross-Institutional Discussion on Preparing Graduate Students for Future Teaching Responsibilities [Roundtable Discussion]. Computers and Writing Conference, George Mason University.

      Huehls, M., Korsnack, K., Murray, M.R., Nilges, M, & Youn, S. (2018, October) Time, Genre, and the Contemporary Novel [Roundtable Discussion]. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Tulane University.

  • Publications
    Journal Articles

    Korsnack, K., Bell, L.A., & Maynard, K.S. (Forthcoming, 2025) Wicked programming: A concrete response to the challenge of faculty disengagement. Journal of Faculty Development.

    Yang, M.L. & Korsnack, K. (2024) Pairing a bioinformatics-focused course-based undergraduate research experience with specifications grading in an introductory biology classroom. Biology Methods and Protocols, 9. 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomethods/bpae013.

    Korsnack, K. & Ortquist-Ahrens, L. (2021) “Holding Tight to Our Convictions and Lightly to Our Ways: Inviting Shared Expertise as a Strategy for Expanding Inclusion, Reach, and Impact.” To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, 39.3. https://doi.org/10.3998/tia.17063888.0039.309

    Book Chapters

    Korsnack, K. (2021). No future but the alternative: Or, temporal leveling in the work of William Gibson. In M.R. Murray & M. Nilges (Eds.), William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture. University of Iowa Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1d82hds

    Korsnack, K. (2018). “GTAs and the writing studio: An experimental space for increased learning and pedagogical growth.” In M. Sutton & S. Chandler (Eds.),The Writing Studio Sampler: Stories About Change (pp. 132-147). Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2018.0179.2.01

    Smith, E.D. & Korsnack, K. (2017). States of nostalgia in the genre of the future: Panem, globalization, and utopia in The Hunger Games trilogy. In L. Fletcher (Ed,), Popular fiction and spatiality: Reading genre settings (pp. 195-211). Palgrave Macmillian. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56902-8