Selected Projects

Board of Trustees, Association of Adaptation Studies 2025-present

• “The Association of Adaptation Studies is a group of people drawn from literature and film backgrounds whose aim is to bring together the diverse strands and developments in the field. The aims of the Association are: to disseminate ideas across disciplines, to challenge assumptions concerning the boundaries of literature on screen, to increase postgraduate work in the field, to support conferences, to enlarge the place of teaching of literature on screen within the curriculum.”
• Secretary
• Website: https://www.adaptation.uk.com/
• Tags: public-facing, leadership, administrative

Founding Editor, Adaptation Today 2023-present

• “a free, accessible resource for all academics and students who are interested in adaptation […] especially graduate students, contingent scholars, and early career researchers.” 
• Responsibilities include program management, the moderation of a listserv, and website development and maintenance. 
• Website: https://adaptationtoday.com/
• Tags: public-facing, digital humanities, leadership

Associate Editor, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom 2022-2025

• “A peer-reviewed digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens” (UVC),
• Responsibilities include website maintenance/design and coordination with contributors. 
• Website: https://undiscipliningvc.org/
• Tags: public-facing, digital humanities

Organizer, Teaching Circle: “Scaffolding Assignments to Empower Students and Discourage AI Plagiarism” Fall 2025

• “Provides instructors across disciplines with information on process writing, discrete tips for how to scaffold writing assignments effectively, strategies for how to keep up with grading when assignments are broken into pieces, and more.” 
• Organized and implemented four teaching circles, attended by 8-15 faculty and instruction staff from across multiple disciplines. 
• Resources: https://padlet.com/kfiggins1/teachingcircle
• Tags: public-facing, digital humanities, leadership

Program Manager, NEH Summer Institute for K-12 Educators 2020-2022

• “Remaking Monsters and Heroines: Adapting Classic Literature for Contemporary Audiences” at University of Arkansas: Institute Dates: Summer 2021 
• Organized a competitive review process. 
• Along with co-directors, I worked with K-12 educators and guest speakers to organize and coordinate a two-week, intensive summer institute.
• Institute Website: https://monstersandheroines.uark.edu/
• Tags: public-facing, digital humanities

Project Coordinator & Grant Writer, NEH Grant Project: “Boom or Bust” 2015-2017

• “Boom or Bust: A Collection and Study of Energy Narratives” at University of Texas- Permian Basin
• Award Amount: $83,799 for Hispanic-Serving Institutions 
• Co-Primary Investigator, with Rebecca Day Babcock and Jason Lagapa 
• Coordinated and publicized a speaker series, monthly book clubs in three cities, and writing workshops. 
• Archive Website: https://www.boomorbustpermianbasin.org/
• Tags: public-facing, digital humanities, leadership

Digital Humanities Portfolio

I’ve been lucky enough to work on a number of exciting projects, helping to build and maintain websites, enhance Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and create assets for digital projects. Please see some of my work below.

Adaptation Today

My responsibilities with Adaptation Today include the creation and maintenance of our website, which hosts pedagogy materials, mentoring resources, and a podcast, as well as other educational and networking resources. I also maintain a listserv, which is hosted on the website.

Unidisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC)

My work on the UVC website has been in developing web pages for syllabi, lesson plans, and assessments. You can see an example of my work by clicking on the image below.

Boom or Bust Research Archive

I was contracted to create a digital archive as an extension of an NEH project titled “Boom or Bust: A Collection and Study of Energy Narratives.” I worked with images and specifications of the other project leaders to create the site from scratch. See it here.

Website for Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)

In 2018, I was hired as the Digital Media Coordinator for the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. In addition to regular maintenance, I created new content for the site, especially related to its biennial conference. I was in this position until 2020, but you can see the most recent version of the site here.

The Sapient Pig Online

When I built the Graduate Students in English (GSE) website in Fall 2018, I had to start from scratch. The last site, which GSE no longer has access to, was last updated in Spring 2017. By viewing the original site here, you’ll notice that I maintained the original structure of the site, but added new many new assets. I also gave it a fresh look.

Click here or on the image below to view The Sapient Pig, circa January 2019 (hosted on The Wayback Machine).

The Sapient Pig Newsletter

Every month, I designed and created content for a long-standing GSE newsletter. I used Adobe InDesign to create these documents. Click on the download button below to see my first newsletter, created in September 2018.