Kylan Rice

Biography

Kylan Rice is a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature, a poet, and a literary editor. His current research project, a monograph in progress entitled The Costs of Cherishing, is about the gender politics of keepsake cultures in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on how women writers from the period worked to renegotiate and revise obligatory intimacies in poetry about mementos, heirlooms, and sentimental jewelry. Broadly, his recovery-oriented research is concerned with minor and minoritarian aesthetics, with a special interest in ornamental aesthetics in poetry by writers from underrepresented backgrounds. His scholarship has appeared in ELH, Arizona Quarterly, CR: The New Centennial Review, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and Women’s Studies. He is the author of two collections of poetry, An Image Not a Book (2023) and Name & Earth (2026), and co-editor of two literary anthologies, and he edits Thirdhand Books, a press that specializes in full-length collections of contemporary experimental lyric poetry. At USU, he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American literature, twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, and creative writing, among others.