Dr. Callie F. Kostelich is an assistant professor in the Technical Communication and Rhetoric program at Texas Tech, where she also serves as the Writing Program Administrator for First-Year Writing. She teaches courses in composition theory and methods, and her research interests include first-year writing, writing program administration, rural literacies, and feminist rhetorics. Her work has appeared in such publications as Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Open Words: Access and English Studies, and Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word. Callie continues to work on her monograph, Sponsoring Agricultural Literacy, which analyzes agricultural literacies and embedded ideologies sponsored by such entities as the National FFA Organization, local grassroots organizations, and social media influencers.

Callie is currently a member of the 2024-2025 Ethics in Teaching and Learning cohort with the TLPDC at Texas Tech. She was a finalist for the 2021 CCCC Excellence in Teaching Award, Emergent Category and a finalist for the 2021 Texas Tech Diamond Award. Moreover, Callie was a 2019 and 2022 Humanities Center Alumni Fellow, and she received the 2019 Lawrence Schovanec Teaching Development Scholarship and the 2020 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, English at Texas Tech.

Ph.D. TCU 

Assistant Professor and Writing Program Administrator

Technical Communication & Rhetoric

Email: callie.kostelich@ttu.edu