Rate My Professor Chanté Mouton Kinyon

Prior to her appointment, Kinyon was the 2019–2021 Moreau Postdoctoral Fellow and the 2018–2019 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellow at Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. She served as Lecturer in Dartmouth College’s Arts & Sciences Academic Divisions (2015–2018), teaching courses such as 'Robbers, Pirates, and Terrorists,' 'Modern Black American Literature,' 'Documentary Theater,' and 'Irish Identity and the West of Ireland,' and as Visiting Scholar in Dartmouth’s Department of African and African American Studies (2013–2015). At NUI Galway, she taught 'Oscar Wilde: Decadence and the Making of Modernism' and first-year English tutorials. Kinyon’s research interests encompass African American Literature, 20th Century Irish Literature, Crime Fiction, Queer Literature, and Transnational Literature. Her key publication is 'Foregrounding (Lost) Rituals in the Irish and Harlem Renaissances: John Millington Synge, Zora Neale Hurston, and The Transatlantic Gesture' in Modern Drama (Vol. 65, No. 4, 2022). She has presented at the Modern Language Association (2017, 'Beyond the Voice: the Oral Tradition and Hurston's Theatre') and University College Dublin (2013, 'Performing Cultural Trauma: Connecting the Famine and Slavery'). Awards include the Galway Doctoral Research Fellowship and a fellowship from the International Federation for Theatre Research. She teaches undergraduate courses such as 'The Black and Green Atlantic' and ''Bloody Conflict': US & Ireland 1968-1969.'