Kacie L. Wills

Kacie L. Wills is an Assistant Professor of English at Allan Hancock College and holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside. In both her scholarship and pedagogy, she approaches textual and archival material in innovative ways in order to establish a dynamic understanding of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century literature.  
 

Her scholarly work is driven by a commitment to material preservation and accessibility, highlighting diverse perspectives, through the digital humanities in an effort to decolonize literary studies. In this process, she reassess long-held theoretical, generic, and period-focused positions on key concepts and works. She is committed to research that makes materials at risk of deteriorating or becoming forgotten accessible to a wider public, and  aims to access underrepresented critical perspectives on scientific progress and the expanding British empire.