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Cecily Raynor

Title: 
Associate Professor
Cecily Raynor
Contact Information
Email address: 
cecily.raynor [at] mcgill.ca
Phone: 
514-399-9419
Unit: 
Faculty of Arts
Office hours: 

Fall 2024: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1pm-2pm

Language(s) spoken: 
English
French
German
Portuguese
Spanish
Swedish
Degree(s): 
  1. Ph.D., Georgetown University (Spanish), 2015
  2. M.A. Middlebury College (Spanish), 2010
  3. M.Sc. (Comparative Politics, Latin America) The London School of Economics, 2006
  4. B.A. (Political Science and German) The College of Wooster, 2004
Biography: 

Dr. Cecily Raynor is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities at Â鶹AV. Her research examines the impact of global phenomenological forces on local realities, with special attention to language, culture, and modes of constructing the self, both online and offline. She is committed to working with cultural products on the margins in order to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within her disciplines. Within the areas of Latin American literature and cultural studies, she has developed an interdisciplinary approach to examining cultural responses to globalization. Her work explores how local cultural production responds to these global forces and how the digital sphere operates as an expanded territory for writing, reading, and producing culture in Spanish and Portuguese.

Professor Raynor’s scholarship centers on contemporary cultural products, in their textual, visual, digital, and analog forms. She recognizes that culture extends beyond canonical literature to include fan fiction, social-media storytelling, and memes. Her work broadens the definition of cultural production, giving a platform to creators such as artists, writers, bloggers, and poets who exist on the margins of her fields, particularly within the digital sphere.

Dr. Raynor’s first book on spatial practices in contemporary Latin America was published by Bucknell University Press in 2021, and her co-edited volume on digital culture in Latin America was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2023. She is currently engaged in a project that investigates local cultural responses to the global COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America. This study focuses on the creative involvement of writers, filmmakers, poets, and digital content creators in grappling with this critical period in contemporary history, which Raynor dialogues with official national public health policies and state-discourse, in order to make visible social, economic, and cultural particularities during the pandemic in the region.

Raynor’s research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Fonds de Recherche du Quebec. Her writing appears in academic journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly, the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea.

Areas of expertise: 
  • Digital Humanities;
  • Digital Culture;
  • Online Cultural Production;
  • Digital Content Creation;
  • Digital Storytelling;
  • Transmedia Storytelling;
  • Memes as Cultural Products;
  • Social Media Storytelling;
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Digital Culture;
  • Digital Platforms and Cultural Expression;
  • Global Digital Phenomenology.
Teaching areas: 
  • Digital Humanities;
  • Digital Cultural Studies;
  • Digital Research Methodologies;
  • Cultural Studies;
  • Contemporary Literary Studies;
  • Digital Storytelling
Selected publications: 

Books

Raynor, Cecily. Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces. Bucknell University Press, 2021.

Edited volumes

Raynor, Cecily and Rhian Lewis, editors. Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production. University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

Raynor, Cecily. “Bringing the Digital into the Graduate Classroom: Project-Based Deep Learning in Digital Humanities Pedagogy.†Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series at the University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming 2024).

Raynor, Cecily. “Não! (1982), Eduardo Kac.†Latin American Digital Poetics, edited by Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Raynor, Cecily. “The Networked Search: Nation, Identity and Digital Literary Content in Chile and Argentina.†Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production, edited by Cecily Raynor and Rhian Lewis. University of Toronto Press, 2023, pp. 38-60.

Raynor, Cecily. “Ruínas e identidades migrantes em Teatro, de Bernardo Carvalho, e Harmada, de Gilberto Noll.†Migração e diversidade cultural na narrativa brasileira contemporânea, edited by Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury and Cimara Valim de Melo. Editora Zouk, 2021, pp. 75-99.

Raynor, Cecily and Luis Ferla. “Apresentação- Edição especial da DHQ em português.†Digital Humanities Quarterly, Vol. 14 Number 2.

Raynor, Cecily. “Fluid Identities: Memory, Origin and Movement in Tatiana Levy’s A chave da casa and Milton Hatoum’s Relato de um certo Oriente.†Portuguese Studies Review, vol. 27, no.1, 2019, pp. 223-237.

Raynor, Cecily. “Geografías digitales: Iluminando las relaciones espaciales en una colección de blogs literarios.†Digital Humanities Quarterly, vol. 12, no.1, 2018.

Raynor, Cecily. “Place Making in the Solitude of the City: Valeria Luiselli’s Faces in the Crowd.†Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature, edited by José Eduardo González and Timothy Robins, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018, pp. 137-151.

Raynor, Cecily. “Speed Control: The Politics of Mobility in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and its Theatrical Adaptation by Àlex Rigola​.†Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 21, 2017, pp. 27-48.

Raynor, Cecily. “The Digital Ruins of Amores Expressos.†Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, vol.31, 2017, 139-152.

Raynor, Cecily. “Representations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil.†Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 6, 2017, pp. 35-45.

Raynor, Cecily. “Geographies of Space and Time in Antonio’s Skármeta’s Soñé que la nieve ardía.†Antonio Skármeta: Nuevas Lecturas, edited by Jason Jolly and César Ferreira. Lima: Fondo Editorial Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2017, pp. 55-66.

Raynor, Cecily.“O global e o particular: uma leitura espacial de Eles eram muitos cavalos de Luiz Ruffato.†Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature, vol. 29, no. 54, 2016, pp. 9-24.

Raynor, Cecily. “Linguagem, espaço e nação: Um mapeamento das identidades multi-geográficas do protagonista imigrante.†Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea vol. 45, 2015, pp. 159-182.

Book Reviews

Raynor, Cecily. Review of Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Digital Humanities in Latin America. Gainesville U.P. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol.100 - Issue 8. 2023: 16-17.

Raynor, Cecily. Review of Sophia Beal, The Art of Brasília: 2000-2019. Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. In: Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, vol. 50.1. 2021: 11-13.

Raynor, Cecily. “Miguel Arnedo-Gómez. Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén. Bucknell University Press, 2016.†Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: Vol. 43: Iss. 2, Article 32. 2019: 1-2.

Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of “KÃTIA DA COSTA BEZERRA. Postcards from Rio: Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 176 PP.†Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. vol 41. No.3. 2017: 663-664.

Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of Hoyos, Héctor. Rev. of “Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel.†Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. Vol. 71. No.23. 2017: 207-210.

Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of “TIMOTHY R. ROBBINS AND JOSÉ EDUARDO GONZÃLEZ, EDS. New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 241 pp.â€Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Vol 30. No.2. 2016: 479-481.

Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of “Corbatta, Jorgelina. BORGES Y YO/ BORGES Y LOS OTROS. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Corregidor, 2013. 182. 978-950-05-2087-4.†Hispania. December 2015: 829-830.

Raynor, Cecily. Rev. of “Peluffo, Ana. ed. Pensar el siglo XIX desde el siglo XXI: Nuevas miradas y lecturas. Raleigh, NC: Editorial A Contracorriente, 2012. Pp. 271. ISBN 978-0-9853715-0-0.†Hispania. March 2014: 161-162.

Interviews

Raynor, Cecily. “Reflections on Japanese-Brazilian Immigration through Narrative: An Interview with Oscar Nakasato.†Journal of Lusophone Studies. Vol 2. No.1.2017.

Raynor, Cecily. “Testing Regionalism, Transnationalism and the Construction of Brazil: An Interview with Luiz Ruffato.†ellipsis. Vol. 13. 2015.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

2022. Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, Â鶹AV

2022. Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Grant from the Canadian Bureau for International Education, Global Affairs Canada (declined due to maternity leave)

2018. Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) Team Grant with Michael Sinatra (Université de Montréal)

2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant

2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant with Michael Sinatra and Stéfan Sinclair

2017. Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant, Â鶹AV

2016. Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQSC), Établissement de Nouveaux Professeurs-Chercheurs

2015. United States Presidential Management Fellow (declined)

2015. Modern Language Association Grad Student Travel Grant

2014. Fundação Luso-Americana Travel Grant

2012. Fulbright Research Fellowship to Brazil

2012. Fellowship for the São Paulo School of Advanced Studies on the Globalization of Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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