Kelley Kreitz specializes in print and digital cultures of the Americas as an Assistant Professor of English at Pace University in New York City. Her research combines media studies, hemispheric studies, and U.S. and Latin American literary studies. She is currently completing a book called Mediating Change: A Hemispheric History of the Present in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. Prior to joining Pace, Kelley was a postdoctoral visiting scholar in Comparative Media Studies at MIT and a visiting researcher at the Center for Martí Studies in Havana, Cuba. She has also worked as a reporter for several nonprofits dedicated to broadcast and digital media production and as the director of the Idea Lab at Root Cause, a nonprofit committed to advancing social innovation.
PhD, Brown University, 2010
Comparative Literature
MA, Brown University, 2005
Comparative Literature
BA, Columbia University, 1999
Comparative Literature
Print and digital cultures of the Americas; Latina/o literature and culture; hemispheric studies and comparative literature; nineteenth-century U.S. and Latin American literature; history of new media and journalism; intellectual history of activism
Digital Excavations: A Place-Based Humanities, Art, and Computing Curriculum
Dwyer, C., Kreitz, K. A., Cotoranu, A., Pappenheimer, W. D., Cunningham, S. B. & Iacullo-Bird, M. September 2022. National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal. Not Funded.
NEH Connections Grant
Kreitz, K. A., Dwyer, C. & Iacullo-Bird, M. September 2024 - August 2026. National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal. Not Funded. Pace University requests $149,973 for a two-year implementation project beginning in September 2024 to launch a new undergraduate minor called Humanities, Art, and Computing (HAC). A joint effort of Pace University’s Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems, and the Provost’s Office, the HAC minor will boost and deepen student engagement with the humanities by bringing together the digital humanities with technological problem-solving and equity-centered design thinking. Students from humanities fields, the visual arts, and computing will learn how to employ computational thinking and digital tools to participate in the production of knowledge about their own cultural heritage; to make sense of the history and current lived experiences of racism, sexism, and economic inequality; and to share a sense of purpose with roles for all to play in achieving a just democracy. Their coursework will include opportunities to investigate the previously obscured people, places, and events of Pace University’s own neighborhood in Lower Manhattan–including the histories of both English and Spanish language newspapers, Chinatown, the African Burial Ground, and Lenape cultural sites. Our approach builds on Pace strengths in experiential learning–which we define as faculty mentored hands-on student experiences in inquiry-based learning--that often involves direct engagement with our communities in New York City. Undergraduate research is an essential component of experiential learning and will be embedded throughout the HAC minor courses and project opportunities through archives-based research and co-production of digital humanities (DH) and public humanities projects, such as digital maps, zines, oral histories, walking tours, websites, and community engagement events. In line with NEH’s “American Tapestry” and “United We Stand” initiatives, the HAC minor will empower students to be creative and equity-centered problem solvers and changemakers whose understanding of the marginalized and suppressed voices of the past will help them build a more just and inclusive society in the present. The interdisciplinary skills, perspectives, and content knowledge students acquire through the HAC minor will equip them for the twentieth-first century workplace–whose ever-evolving job market will demand adaptive, creative thinkers with strong technological and communication skills.
ENG 310: Journalism
ENG 318: Feature Writing
ENG 393: Internship
INT 198: Fearless Texts Don Quixote
LIT 205: Intro to Lit, Culture & Media
LIT 211: American Voices
LIT 211: Latina/o Voices
LIT 213: Media Fictions
LIT 213: Participatory Literature
LIT 340: Alternative Media & Literature
LIT 397: Critical Writing and Analysis
UNV 101: First-Year Smnr Unvrsty Cmmnty
Recalibrated Compass: Creating a Humanities, Art and Computing (HAC) Minor at Pace University
Kreitz, K. A., Cunningham, S. B. & Cotoranu, A. (2023). HASTAC: Critical Making and Social Justice. .
As the newly appointed director of experiential learning and the Pace Path, Associate Professor of English Kelley Kreitz, PhD, is exploring how Pace’s approach to hands-on pedagogy enhances student success and sets the University apart.