Vivian Kao earned her Ph.D in English from Rutgers University in 2015. At LTU, she coordinates the first-year composition program and teaches courses in writing, literature, film studies, and the intersection between the humanities and technology. She is an advisor in the BS Technological Humanities degree program.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS OF INTEREST

First-year composition, writing and humanities pedagogy at STEM universities, feminist theories of writing program administration, nineteenth-century British fiction and the British empire, film and media studies.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Monograph

• Kao, Vivian. Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
  • Diba, Reihaneh. Review of Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel, by Vivian Kao. Adaptation, vol. 14, no. 3, Dec 2021, pp. 463–467. https://doi:10.1093/adaptation/apab009.
  • Ghosh, Oindrila. Review of Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel, by Vivian Kao. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2020, pp. 61-63.

Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

• Kao, Vivian, and Julia Kiernan, eds. Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities. Routledge, 2022.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Kao, Vivian, Nicole Hedges, Samuel Huggins, Bethany Balint, Mark Kocherovsky, Katelyn Seger, Amar Dabaja. “Using Course-Based Research to Evaluate Best Practices for Teaching Writing to First-Year Engineering Students.” SPUR: Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, vol. 3, no. 3, 2020, https://www.cur.org/what/publications/journals/spur/issues/.
• Kao, Vivian. “Using Objects to Engage Students in Critical Reading and Connective Thinking.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 47, no. 4, 2020, pp. 403-404.
• Kao, Vivian. “Building Structure and Thinking Design in First-Year Composition.” Composition Forum, vol. 42, 2019, n.p., http://compositionforum.com/issue/42/structure.php.
• Kao, Vivian. “Kipling in Vietnam: Rehabilitating American Imperialism in John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King.” Kipling Journal, vol. 92, no. 378, 2019, pp. 27-40.
• Kao, Vivian. “‘Science, Technology, and the Human’: Integrating STEM and the Introductory Humanities Course.” Interdisciplinary Humanities, vol. 34, no. 3, 2017, pp. 7-21.
• Kao, Vivian. “Kipling’s Holy Paternalism: Buddhist-Imperial Hierarchies in Kim.” The Victorian, vol. 5, no. 1, 2017, np. http://journals.sfu.ca/vict/index.php/vict/issue/current.
• Kao, Vivian. “The Unaccounted in Tess and Trishna.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, vol. 48, no. 5, 2015, pp. 383-404.
• Kao, Vivian. “Adapting Heritage: Reading the Writerly Text in Orlando.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, 2015, pp. 276-290.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• Kao, Vivian, and Julia Kiernan. “Introduction.” Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities. Routledge, 2022.
• Kao, Vivian, Daniel Moyer, Abir Awada, and Aviva Gordon. “Local Exigencies in a World of Expectations: STEM Writing Programs and the Great Balancing Act.” Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities. Routledge, 2022.
• Kao, Vivian. “Childhood’s Dream and Memory’s Nightmare: Lewis Carroll’s Alice Stories and Jan Švankmajer’s Něco z Alenky.” Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond. Ed. Ryan James Barnett and Serena Trowbridge. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. 55-72.

Works Accepted and Forthcoming

• Kao, Vivian. “Object Encounters: First-Year Composition in the Art Museum Space.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 24, no. 1, 2024.
• Kao, Vivian. “Writing with Artifacts.” The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics. 2024.

Works in Progress

• Kao, Vivian. The Empire Walks: Pedestrians in British Imperial Literature, 1830-1945.