Kylie combines play theory, planetary philosophy, and aesthetics in her writing. She serves as faculty in the art history department at Eastern Connecticut State University where she teaches ‘Issues in Contemporary Art,’ ‘American Art History,’ and ‘Art Since 1400.’ She also works at Quinnipiac University in their Honor’s department where she designed and teaches her own interdisciplinary seminar ‘Otherworlds: Future Poetics’ that combines place-based ethics and speculative fiction. She will join the faculty at Sacred Heart University in spring 2026 to teach ‘Philosophy of Beauty & Art.’ Previously, she taught creative writing at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts where she was voted the ‘2024 Artist Instructor of the Year.’ Her dissertation Mutualist Sensorium: Aesthetics of Vertiginous Play is under the direction of trained anthropologist and philosopher Dejan Lukic. Kylie presented Nesting the World (or, Haptic Listening) at SECAC in Atlanta in 2024. In 2025, she presented Vertiginous Play: A Transformative Kinetics at the Beyond Humanism Conference in Paris and was selected to present Envisioning the Macroalgal with Adrian Ghenie at the PACT Conference in Alaska. She lives with her husband James and their two dogs and two cats in Connecticut.

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