Office Hours
By Appointment
Education
MA, University of Nevada, Reno
BA University of Montevallo
About Me
Academic or professional interests/memberships:
GSC Senate Representative in EGA
Member of GSC Family Initiatives
Honors or Awards:
2026 GTA Teaching Award, Doctoral Level
2024 GTA Teaching Award, Doctoral Level
2022 Ruth Lowe Brittin & Norman A. Brittin Fellowship
Collaborative or interdisciplinary work:
Research Assistant for LUCIA
Areas of Expertise
20th and 21st literature and media studies, technical communication, environmental narratives
Research Interests
“Narratives of Place” in environmental literature and adaptations across media, storytelling and cultural transformations of place in community, collaboration in storytelling and world-making in tabletop roleplaying games
Publications
Kines, Sylvan B. (August 2025). “Book Review of The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing: The Written Word as a Tool for Social Justice Then and Now by Kathryn Rosser Raign, New York, SUNY Press, 2024.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 34(4), pp. 525–528. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2025.2540980
Baker, Sylvan (Winter 2025). “Matters in the Bloom: Material Ecocriticism in Dimension 20’s Actual Play A Court of Fey and Flowers.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, 64(2), pp. 192–197. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2025.a951197
Courses Taught
Teaching Interests: Contemporary literature and the environment, technical communication with focus on design and grassroots collaboration
Taught: ENGL 1100, ENGL 1120, small-group lead in American Literature before 1865, small-group lead in World Literature after 1600