Contact Information
Lorrayne (Rayne) Broach
University Email: lbroach@luc.edu
Personal Email: broach.rayne@gmail.com
Education
Ph.D. English Literature – Loyola University Chicago – (In Progress, 2028) – Chicago, IL
M.A. English Literature – Loyola University Chicago – (2023) – Chicago, IL
B.A. English Literature and Creative Writing – The State University of New York at Oswego – (2019) – Oswego, NY
Professional Roles
Writing Center Associate Director, Fall 2025 – Present
LUC English Graduate Student Association Vice President, Fall 2025 – Spring 2026
LUC English Graduate Student Association Treasurer, Fall 2024 – Spring 2025
Writing Responsibly Textbook, Formatter, Loyola University Writing Program, July 2024
Conference Presentations
Upcoming: “The Laboratory of Textual Architecture” Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Montréal, Québec, June 2026
“Archive Animations: Dickinson’s Pinned Poems,” Digital Humanities Symposium, Normal, IL, April 2025 (Event Canceled)
“Poetics and the Archive: Sound, Space, and Silence,” Midwest Modern Language Association. Cincinnati, OH. November 2023
“Animating the Archive: The 3D Rendering of Emily Dickinson’s Pinned Poems,” Society for Textual Scholarship. New York City, NY. June 2023
Invited Talks:
“From Cheating to Collaboration: Thinking and Writing With Chat GPT,” LUCRA Event, Chicago, IL, March 2025
“Data Firmament: Seeing and Sounding Dickinson’s Birds” with Dr. Marta Werner, Caroline McCraw, and Danielle Nasenbeny, The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, April 2024
Scholarly Presentations
“AI For Writing Center Tutors,” with Dr. Elizabeth Hopwood. Loyola University Chicago Writing Center, Professional Development Workshop for Writing Fellows and Tutors, November 2024
“Finding Representative Moments and Taking Perspectives: Comparative Readings of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” guest lecture in Joseph Hansen’s Human Values in Literature Course at Loyola University Chicago, March 2024
Digital Projects
“The Laboratory of Textual Architecture.” TexLab Workspace and Accompanying Papers. Project Creator, Designer, Coder, Writer. May 2025
“Image Comparator Tool.” Digital Tool Creator, Designer, and Coder. April 2025
“Amy Lowell Letter Project” with Dr. Melissa Bradshaw. Graduate Assistant. August 2023 – Present
“Dickinson’s Birds” with Dr. Marta Werner. Graduate Assistant. May 2023 – Present
“Record of Production, Identification, Description, and the Establishment of ENG 362.” Database Creator and Designer. December 2019
Courses Taught
“Literature in Flux: Playing with Form,” University Core Literature Requirement, Loyola University Chicago, Spring 2025
Freshman Composition: University Core Writing Requirement (UCWR), Loyola University Chicago, Fall 2023
AI Classroom Assignments
“Thinking and Writing with ChatGPT,” 2023 (Revised and Circulated in Loyola University Chicago English Department, Spring 2025)