The Faculty Guide is maintained by the General Education English team, as the program assistants update, revise, and edit material each semester. This second edition was edited by Emiliya Mailyan (from 2024-2026) and Lalonie McCarter (2025-present).

Editors of the Second Edition

Emiliya Mailyan is an English Ph.D. candidate and graduate teaching assistant at MTSU. She received her M.A. from Belmont University, where she wrote a multigenre work of poems and vignettes about family’s Armenian heritage and refugee experience. Her areas of scholarly interest include rhetoric and composition, diaspora studies, food culture, documentary poetics, and multigenre creative writing. Her current dissertation research examines several Armenian cookbooks through multimodal discourse analysis—considering these texts as rhetorical sites for negotiating memory, resistance, and belonging.

Lalonie McCarter is an English Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant at MTSU. She received her M.A. and B.A. in English Literature from Tennessee Technological University. Her areas of scholarly interest include feminist and trauma theory, hauntology, fairytale adaptations, and 20th Century – Contemporary American Literature. Currently, her research focuses on exploring fairytale and other literary adaptations as ways of expressing representational truths about trauma that honor complexity, vulnerability, and unresolved experiences.

Editor of the First Edition

Kylie Petrovich was a Ph.D. student and graduate teaching assistant at MTSU who graduate in the Spring of 2025. She specializes in modern American literature, popular culture, and identity theory. She also enjoys creative writing and maintains and avid interest in psychology. She served as program assistant for Gen Ed English from 2024-2025.