She serves as the Internship Coordinator for the department. Kate received her PhD from the Ohio State University specializing in composition and rhetoric. She teaches many classes ranging from professional writing to rhetorical theory and pop culture. Kate has written several articles on women’s clubs, citizenship, and pageantry as a form of rhetorical education. Her work has appeared in College English and Rhetoric Review. Kate’s current research interests include microhistories of composition studies, feminist historiography, and women writers and detectives in crime fiction.