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Kyle McQuillan Oral History Interview, 2018 April 16

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Scope and Contents

Oral history conducted for the 100 Years of Coeducation commemoration. Kyle McQuillan arrived at William & Mary in 2013. During her time at William & Mary, she participated in Kappa Delta and Student Conduct. Additionally, she was a member of the crew team during her freshman year and a member of the club lacrosse team her junior and senior years. After graduating in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies, McQuillan joined the staff of William & Mary Libraries as part of a one-year Mosaic Fellowship. Her time as a fellow has been spent working with the Cuban Film Project—fabricating physical and online exhibits of Cuban film posters. In Fall 2018 she will pursue a Doctorate of Philosophy in Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her interview, McQuillan recalls her time at William & Mary as being formative and challenging. McQuillan highlights how her experiences with female professors such as Professor Ann Marie Stock and Professor Francie Cate-Arries led her to declare a Hispanic Studies major. She reflects on moments of belonging, like eating Wawa on the Sunken Gardens and her time on club sports teams. Yet, McQuillan passionately speaks of the institution’s shortcomings, such as its stress culture, lack of diversity, and poor handling of sexual misconduct cases. These institutional failures feel particularly salient to McQuillan post-presidential election, and she notes the election’s galvanizing effect on the student body. Her work as a Mosaic Fellow in Swem Special Collections reminds her that “so much of this school has happened on the backs of people whose narratives were never included.” Her education at William & Mary reminds her that “learning should never be something that you stop.”

Dates

  • Creation: 2018 April 16

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Extent

From the Collection: 1 Gigabytes

From the Collection: .1 Linear Feet (1 legal size folder)

Language

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository

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