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Cecily Raynor
Fall 2024: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1pm-2pm
- Ph.D., Georgetown University (Spanish), 2015
- M.A. Middlebury College (Spanish), 2010
- M.Sc. (Comparative Politics, Latin America) The London School of Economics, 2006
- B.A. (Political Science and German) The College of Wooster, 2004
Dr. Cecily Raynor is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities at 海角社区. Her research examines the impact of global phenomenological forces on local realities, with special attention to language, culture, and modes of constructing the self, both online and offline. She is committed to working with cultural products on the margins in order to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within her disciplines. Within the areas of Latin American literature and cultural studies, she has developed an interdisciplinary approach to examining cultural responses to globalization. Her work explores how local cultural production responds to these global forces and how the digital sphere operates as an expanded territory for writing, reading, and producing culture in Spanish and Portuguese.
Professor Raynor鈥檚 scholarship centers on contemporary cultural products, in their textual, visual, digital, and analog forms. She recognizes that culture extends beyond canonical literature to include fan fiction, social-media storytelling, and memes. Her work broadens the definition of cultural production, giving a platform to creators such as artists, writers, bloggers, and poets who exist on the margins of her fields, particularly within the digital sphere.
Dr. Raynor鈥檚 first book on spatial practices in contemporary Latin America was published by Bucknell University Press in 2021, and her co-edited volume on digital culture in Latin America was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2023. She is currently engaged in a project that investigates local cultural responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America. This study focuses on the creative involvement of writers, filmmakers, poets, and digital content creators in grappling with this critical period in contemporary history, which Raynor dialogues with official national public health policies and state-discourse, in order to make visible social, economic, and cultural particularities during the pandemic in the region.
Raynor鈥檚 research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec. Her writing appears in academic journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contempor芒nea.
- Digital Humanities;
- Digital Culture;
- Online Cultural Production;
- Digital Content Creation;
- Digital Storytelling;
- Transmedia Storytelling;
- Memes as Cultural Products;
- Social Media Storytelling;
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Culture;
- Digital Platforms and Cultural Expression;
- Global Digital Phenomenology.
- Digital Humanities;
- Digital Cultural Studies;
- Digital Research Methodologies;
- Cultural Studies;
- Contemporary Literary Studies;
- Digital Storytelling
Books
Raynor, Cecily. Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces. Bucknell University Press, 2021.
Edited volumes
Raynor, Cecily and Rhian Lewis, editors. Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production. University of Toronto Press, 2023.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淏ringing the Digital into the Graduate Classroom: Project-Based Deep Learning in Digital Humanities Pedagogy.鈥� Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series at the University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming 2024).
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淣茫o! (1982), Eduardo Kac.鈥� Latin American Digital Poetics, edited by Luis Correa-D铆az and Scott Weintraub. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淭he Networked Search: Nation, Identity and Digital Literary Content in Chile and Argentina.鈥� Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production, edited by Cecily Raynor and Rhian Lewis. University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 38-60.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淩u铆nas e identidades migrantes em Teatro, de Bernardo Carvalho, e Harmada, de Gilberto Noll.鈥� Migra莽茫o e diversidade cultural na narrativa brasileira contempor芒nea, edited by Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury and Cimara Valim de Melo. Editora Zouk, 2021, pp. 75-99.
Raynor, Cecily and Luis Ferla. 鈥淎presenta莽茫o- Edi莽茫o especial da DHQ em portugu锚s.鈥� Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 14 Number 2.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淔luid Identities: Memory, Origin and Movement in Tatiana Levy鈥檚 A chave da casa and Milton Hatoum鈥檚 Relato de um certo Oriente.鈥� Portuguese Studies Review, vol. 27, no.1, 2019, pp. 223-237.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淕eograf铆as digitales: Iluminando las relaciones espaciales en una colecci贸n de blogs literarios.鈥� Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 12, no.1, 2018.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淧lace Making in the Solitude of the City: Valeria Luiselli鈥檚 Faces in the Crowd.鈥� Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature, edited by Jos茅 Eduardo Gonz谩lez and Timothy Robins, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018, pp. 137-151.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淪peed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bola帽o鈥檚 2666 and its Theatrical Adaptation by 脌lex Rigola鈥�.鈥� Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 21, 2017, pp. 27-48.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淭he Digital Ruins of Amores Expressos.鈥� Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, vol.31, 2017, 139-152.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淩epresentations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil.鈥� Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 6, 2017, pp. 35-45.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淕eographies of Space and Time in Antonio鈥檚 Sk谩rmeta鈥檚 So帽茅 que la nieve ard铆a.鈥� Antonio Sk谩rmeta: Nuevas Lecturas, edited by Jason Jolly and C茅sar Ferreira. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017, pp. 55-66.
Raynor, Cecily.鈥淥 global e o particular: uma leitura espacial de Eles eram muitos cavalos de Luiz Ruffato.鈥� Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature, vol. 29, no. 54, 2016, pp. 9-24.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淟inguagem, espa莽o e na莽茫o: Um mapeamento das identidades multi-geogr谩ficas do protagonista imigrante.鈥� Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contempor芒nea vol. 45, 2015, pp. 159-182.
Book Reviews
Raynor, Cecily. Review of H茅ctor Fern谩ndez L鈥橦oeste and Juan Carlos Rodr铆guez, Digital Humanities in Latin America. Gainesville U.P. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol.100 - Issue 8. 2023: 16-17.
Raynor, Cecily. Review of Sophia Beal, The Art of Bras铆lia: 2000-2019. Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. In: Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 50.1. 2021: 11-13.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淢iguel Arnedo-G贸mez. Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicol谩s Guill茅n. Bucknell University Press, 2016.鈥� Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 43: Iss. 2, Article 32. 2019: 1-2.
Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of 鈥淜脕TIA DA COSTA BEZERRA. Postcards from Rio: Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 176 PP.鈥� Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. vol 41. No.3. 2017: 663-664.
Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of Hoyos, H茅ctor. Rev. of 鈥淏eyond Bola帽o: The Global Latin American Novel.鈥� Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contempor谩nea. Vol. 71. No.23. 2017: 207-210.
Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of 鈥淭IMOTHY R. ROBBINS AND JOS脡 EDUARDO GONZ脕LEZ, EDS. New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 241 pp.鈥�Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. Vol 30. No.2. 2016: 479-481.
Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of 鈥淐orbatta, Jorgelina. BORGES Y YO/ BORGES Y LOS OTROS. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2013. 182. 978-950-05-2087-4.鈥� Hispania. December 2015: 829-830.
Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of 鈥淧eluffo, Ana. ed. Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas. Raleigh, NC: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2012. Pp. 271. ISBN 978-0-9853715-0-0.鈥� Hispania. March 2014: 161-162.
Interviews
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淩eflections on Japanese-Brazilian Immigration through Narrative: An Interview with Oscar Nakasato.鈥� Journal of Lusophone Studies. Vol 2. No.1.2017.
Raynor, Cecily. 鈥淭esting Regionalism, Transnationalism and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato.鈥� ellipsis. Vol. 13. 2015.
2022. Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, 海角社区
2022. Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Grant from the Canadian Bureau for International Education, Global Affairs Canada (declined due to maternity leave)
2018. Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Soci茅t茅 et culture (FRQSC) Team Grant with Michael Sinatra (Universit茅 de Montr茅al)
2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant
2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant with Michael Sinatra and St茅fan Sinclair
2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, 海角社区
2016. Fonds de Recherche du Qu茅bec (FRQSC), 脡tablissement de Nouveaux Professeurs-Chercheurs
2015. United States Presidential Management Fellow (declined)
2015. Modern Language Association Grad Student Travel Grant
2014. Funda莽茫o Luso-Americana Travel Grant
2012. Fulbright Research Fellowship to Brazil
2012. Fellowship for the S茫o Paulo School of Advanced Studies on the Globalization of Culture in the Nineteenth Century