She most recently taught rhetoric, composition and literature at Middle Tennessee State University, where she also was a Geier Dissertation and Teaching Fellow. This year, she was named recipient of the American Educational Research Association Dissertation Award for Excellence in Bilingual Education Research. Lowe also has taught at Vanderbilt University and Belmont University, both in Nashville. In May, Lowe earned a Doctor of Education in language, literacy and culture from the Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. She has a Master of Arts in literature from Vanderbilt and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.