Kyle McQuillan

Education

M.A., Romance Studies (Spanish), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020

B.A., Hispanic Studies, William & Mary, 2017

About Kyle

Kyle McQuillan is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is interested in the intersections of human-centered design and pedagogy to make literature a more accessible and equitable tool in and out of the classroom. Her dissertation uses participatory research methods to develop teaching tools for Medical Spanish courses with curated texts as the basis for scaffolded simulations that teach vocabulary inductively while preparing students to be stronger literature students and future clinicians.

Kyle is also the Design Thinking Innovation Manager at Innovate Carolina, where she works to promote and strengthen the Carolina design and innovation ecosystem by contributing to ongoing design strategy and managing the Design and Innovation for the Public Good team’s ReCharge consulting practice. Additionally, she mentors graduate student Design Thinking and Innovation Fellows and facilitates human centered design trainings for faculty, staff and students on campus.