About the Authors
About the Authors
Kate Pantelides
Kate Pantelides is an associate professor and was the Director 
of General Education English at Middle Tennessee State University from 2016-2023. She teaches writing, rhetoric, and research classes for undergraduate and graduate students. Her research addresses research methods, feminist rhetorics, and writing program administration. Dr. Pantelides’ work has been published in College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition: An International Journal, and Composition Forum, among other venues.
Erica Stone
Erica Stone worked with the department of English at Middle Tennessee State University from 2020-2022. She served as the Associate Director of General Education English and CO-PI for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) Grant: https://www.mtsu.edu/oer/. She works at the intersection of technical communication, public rhetoric, and community organizing. Erica’s writing can be found in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal; Community Literacy Journal; Teaching English in the Two Year College; Basic Writing Electronic (BWe) Journal; and various edited collections. In her 2016 TED talk, she urges academics to engage with popular media, publish in open access spaces, and include communities in their research. Read more about her community-based work at www.ericamstone.com.
Nicholas Krause
Nich joined the Ph.D. program at MTSU in the Fall of 2020. He was born and raised in the mountainous terrain of Colorado, and he received both his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy at Colorado State University. Nich is a graduate student instructor who spends much of his time expanding his mind in his primary areas of research, which include film theory, feminist pragmatism, and 20th-century American literature.
Caroline LaPlue
Caroline joined the English Ph.D. program at MTSU in 2021. She received her M.A. from Aberystwyth University in Wales, and has taught English at the high school and collegiate levels. She serves as a graduate student instructor at MTSU and teaches courses in first-year writing. Caroline’s research interests include Victorian literature, linguistics, and writing and literature pedagogy.
