Meet Kacy Tillman
Director, Honors Program; Professor, English and Writing
Phone: (813) 257-1706
Email: ktillman@ut.edu
Address: 401 W. Kennedy Blvd. Tampa, FL 33606
Mailbox: 147F
Building:
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Room: 305
Education
2004 Baylor University, M.A.
2008 University of Mississippi, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Sex and Seduction in the Early American RepublicLiterature of the Early American Republic
The Nineteenth-Century Novel
The Alternative American Renaissance
Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution
The 鈥淔鈥 Word: Origins of American Feminism
Survey of American Literature to the Civil War
Academic Writing and Research
Career Specialties
Kacy Dowd Tillman researches loyalist women writers of the American Revolution. Her area of specialty is eighteenth century manuscript culture, specifically letter-writing and diary-keeping. Her book, Stripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), is about how women used letters, journals and letter journals to construct and distribute their own definitions of loyalty during the war. Tillman also researches loyalty, neutrality, disaffection and pacifism in the late eighteenth century. She has also published on early American literature (particularly sentimental fiction) and manuscript culture more broadly in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Southern Studies, Literature of the Early American Republic, Legacy, American Literary History and Early American Literature. She is a subject editor for Age of Revolutions.
Professional and Community Activities
BooksStripped and Script: Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution, Boston: University of
Massachusetts Press (2019). ISBN: 978-1-62534-432-8
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals and Books
鈥淐onstructing Female Loyalism.鈥 The Consequences of Loyalism: Essays in Honors of Robert
Calhoon. Eds. Rebecca Brannon and Joseph Moore. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2019.
鈥淧aper Bodies: Letters and Letter-Writing in the Early American Novel.鈥 Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature. 35.2 (2016): 123-144.
鈥淲omen Left Behind: Female loyalism, coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway鈥檚 Empire of
Self鈥 in Women鈥檚 Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire
Eds. Mary Balkun and Susan Imbarrato. New York: Palgrave, 2016. ISBN: 9781137559906
鈥淓liza Lucas Pinckney as Cultural Broker: Reconsidering a South Carolinian Legacy.鈥 Southern Studies. 18.2 (Fall-Winter 2011): 49-65.
鈥淭he Epistolary Salon: Examining Eighteenth-Century American Letter-Writing as a Vehicle for Female Political Engagement.鈥 Literature of the Early American Republic. 3 (2011): 62 鈥 80.
Magazine Articles
Column: Having it All? for Creative Loafing
I forgot the Juice Box at the Rally Against Racism
Is Anxiety the New Hysteria?
An Afternoon at Aldi in the Apocalypse
Ashes to Ashes: A Mom Reflects on the Parkland Massacre
Reviews
Review of Kelroy by Rebecca Rush. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 35.1 (2018):
106-108.
Review of The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-
Writing, Ed. by Celeste-Marie Bernier, Judie Newman, and Matthew Pethers. American Literary History. (2017). https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/alh_review_series_9
鈥淎 Nation Apart, Together,鈥 review of Holy Nation: The Transatlantic Quaker Ministry in an Age of Revolution. By Sarah Crabtree. Common-Place. 17.2.5 (2017). http://common- place.org/book/a-nation-apart-together/
Review of Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760 鈥 1860. Ed. by Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris. Early American Literature. 47.1 (2012): 239-242.
Electronic Publications
鈥淲riting Rape in the American Revolution,鈥 Sexing Histories of Revolution Roundtable, Age of Revolutions, April 17, 2017. https://ageofrevolutions.com/2017/04/17/writing-rape-in- the-american-revolution/
鈥淟oyalist Women and the Fight for the Right to Entry,鈥 Age of Revolutions, March 14, 2016. https://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/03/14/loyalist-women-and-the-fight-for-the-right-to- entry/
鈥淔ilial Piety in The History of Constantius and Pulchera.鈥 Just Teach One Teaching Series.
Common-Place. 13 June 2013. http://www.common-place.org/justteachone/?p=192.
鈥淲hat is a Female Loyalist?鈥 Common-Place. 13.4 (2013). http://www.common-place.org/ vol-13/no-04/tillman/