Tonya Howe

Tonya Howe is an Instructional Designer &Technologist in the Costello College of Business with a background in higher education administration, digital humanities, and cultural studies. She earned a B.A. from James Madison University, a PhD in Literature and Language from the University of Michigan, and an MPS in Data Analysis and Visualization from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her scholarly interests include text encoding, visual storytelling, open education, horror film, and eighteenth-century popular culture. She has published on Klaus Kinski, early modern contortionists, and farce as a popular genre in the eighteenth century, and she has a forthcoming co-authored work on teaching with TEI. In 2018 and again in 2022, she was awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities grants for Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English, 1400-1925. In 2019, she was awarded the VFIC H. Hiter Harris award for Instructional Technology. Dr. Howe served as a Professor of Literature at Marymount University for 17 years, teaching courses ranging from first-year composition and digital storytelling to data visualization (in the School of Business) and graduate-level literary theory.

Degrees

• MPS, Data Analytics & Visualization, Maryland Institute College of Art (2022)
• PhD, Literature & Language, The University of Michigan (2005)
• BA, English & Philosophy, James Madison University (1997)

Research and Awards 

Awards

• Longlisted, Information is Beautiful Awards (2022)
• Level 3 Advancement Grant (Outright Funding: $303,000), National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (2022-2025)
• Open Course Grant (Outright Funding: $21,500), VIVA (2022-2025)
• Sabbatical Grant, Marymount University (2021)
• School of Design, Arts, and Humanities Scholarship Award, Marymount University (2020)
• H. Harris Hiter Award for Excellence in Instructional Technology, Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (2019)
• Level 2 Advancement Grant (Outright Funding: $372,542), National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (2018-2019)
• Sabbatical Grant, Marymount University (2014)
• School of Arts and Sciences Service Award, Marymount University (2009)
• Michael Erik Myatt Dissertation Award in Disability Studies, University of Michigan Initiative in Disability Studies (2005)

Publications

• “A Novel Moment for #WriteWithAphra,” ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 10:2 (Fall 2020). Co-authored with Laura Runge. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol10/iss2/1.
• “Non-­Fatal Inquiry: Love in Excess, Print, and the Internet Age,” Approaches to Teaching Eliza Haywood, ed. by Tiffany Potter. Modern Language Association of America, 2020. 196-203.
• “WWABD?: Intersectional Futures in Digital History.” ABO: An Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. Fall 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=abo.
• “Open Anthologies and the Eighteenth-Century Reader.” Co-authored with John O’Brien. The Eighteenth-Century Common. 27 June 2016. http://www.18thcenturycommon.org/anthologies.
• “Crawlspace and the Kinski Swerve,” Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema. Ed. by Matthew Edwards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press. 2016. 140-160
• Co-Producer and Dramaturg, "How to Give Birth to a Rabbit." Sprenger Theatre, Atlas Performing Arts Center. Capital Fringe 2016.
• “’All Deform’d Shapes’: Figuring the Posture-Master as Popular Performer in Early Eighteenth-Century England.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 12.4 (Fall 2012): 26-47.
• “Teaching Carnival 5.05” ProfHacker: Tips about Teaching, Technology, and Productivity. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 9 January 2012. Web.
• “Abject, Delude, Create: The Aesthetic Self-Consciousness of Early Eighteenth-Century Farce.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 25.1 (Winter 2011): 25-45.
• “Taking the Coquette Seriously.” Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation (July 2011, Online Supplement).
• “Teaching Carnival 5.01” ProfHacker: Tips about Teaching, Technology, and Productivity. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 1 September 2011. Web.
• “Seeing the Trees in the Forest: Teaching Literature with Data Visualization Techniques.” Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences (Fall 2008): 43-61.