Kylie combines play theory and planetary philosophy in her research and 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 is also a creative writing instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts where she was voted the ‘2024 Artist-Instructor of the Year’. Her dissertation Thresholds of Play: the Art of Vertigo is under the direction of trained anthropologist Dejan Lukic. She presented her research Nesting the World (or, Haptic Listening), an examination of Brian Massumi’s affect and what impressions birdsong leaves on subjectivity, at SECAC in Atlanta in 2024. She lives with her husband James, and their two dogs and two cats in Middletown Connecticut.

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