PHD, RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION 
(JUNE 2018)
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Focus: History of rhetoric, with emphases in editorial history/theory and digital composition
Distinctions: Radford Fellow (Fall 2014–Spring 2015), Tate Prize in Composition Studies (2014)
Dissertation: Editing Culture: The Rhetorical Work of Textual Editing as Shaping Collective Memory and Social Action (defended with distinction)
*Certificate in New Media Composing and Teaching 

MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING 
(MAY 2011)
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC                
Focus: contemporary creative nonfiction; secondary focus in contemporary fiction
Thesis: Confiding History: stories we lived when no one was watching (new journalism/memoir)

MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH 
(AUG. 2006)
Baylor University, Waco, TX                                                   
Focus: religion and literature, poetics and composition
Thesis: A Collaborative Work of Art in Action: The 1979 American Book of Common Prayer, Rite II

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN LIBERAL STUDIES 
(APRIL 2002)
Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK                                 
Focus: English, psychology, and political science
Distinctions: graduated with honors and summa cum laude