Dr. Chloe Brooke Instructor - First-Year Writing

Education

Ph.D. English. Texas Tech University. December 2022 
Dissertation, "The Child as an Arrow: Erasmian Pedagogy and English Literature from Pearl to The Governess."
Book History and Digital Humanities Certificate, December 2022.

M.A. English. Texas Woman's University. August 2016. 
Thesis, "Postmodern Tendencies of the Feminism of Nancy Drew."

B.A. English. Tarleton State University. May 2012. 
B.S. Agricultural Communications. Tarleton State University. August 2012. 

Publications

Academic Publications

"Milton's Classroom: Erasmus, Civic Humanism, and the Instruction of Child-Figures in Paradise Lost." Feminist Readings of John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson, edited by David Ainsworth and Thomas Festa, University of South Carolina Press, forthcoming.

Book Reviews

Review of Wastes and Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England by Eleanor Johnson. Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 3, 2026.

Review of John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400 by Emily Steiner. Renaissance Quarterly, vol 78, no. 1, 2026.

Review of The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700. Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, spring 2025.

Creative Publications

Sophie and the Frog, ROMAR Press, forthcoming.

Hudson and His Blanket, ROMAR Press, December 2024.  

Teaching Experience

Wayland Baptist University, January 2021-present 
Graduate and Advanced Courses 
Graduate Middle Ages, Graduate Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century Literature, Shakespeare, Advanced Grammar, Professional Editing

Texas Tech University, August 2018 – December 2022, January 2024-present   
3000-level Instructor 
Women Writers: "Women Rewriting the Canon", online course June-August 2021. 
Students use argumentative and creative assignments to confront women’s issues and evaluate techniques and styles of women writers who directly rewrite canonical texts. This course instruction is online, fulfilling English major requirements, Women’s Studies certificates, and Multicultural certificates. Graduate part-time instructors must apply for consideration to teach 3000-level courses. Requests are evaluated by evidence of teaching effectiveness. 
2000-level Instructor 
Introduction to Drama: "The Woman Question in Renaissance and Restoration Plays", Fall 2021. 
Introduction to Fiction: "Forbidden Fantasy Lands in Children’s Literature", online course Summer 2019 & Spring 2019 
First-Year Writing Instructor 2018-2019, December 2022- present

Shallowater ISD & South Plains College (dual credit), 2016-2018 
On-level senior English and dual credit junior and senior English through South Plains College. 
Elementary (3rd grade) P.E. & high school girls’ athletics coach (cross country, basketball, track)

Texas Woman’s University, 2015-2016 
Taught English 1301 as a graduate student my final semester.

Decatur ISD, 2012-2016 
6th grade English, 7th grade Pre-AP English, 9th grade Reading & Writing 
7th and 8th grade girls’ athletics coach (volleyball, basketball, track) 

Conference Presentations

"Overcoming the Female: Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson’s Gendered Metaphors," South Central Renaissance Conference, University of Berkeley California, April 27-29, 2023.

(Accepted but unable to attend) "43. Seminar: Women and Complaint, from Medieval to Early Modern," Shakespeare Association of America roundtable discussion. March 29-April 1, 2023.  

"Using Classical Education and Her Pen: Lucy Hutchinson’s Didactic Rhetoric," Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval And Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, June 21-23, 2022.

"Giving Up Agency: Submission and Obedience in the Pearl manuscript," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Virtual Symposium, Texas Tech University, April 24, 2021.

"The Community Engaged Pre-Modern Classroom," Shakespeare Association of America, virtual panel April 2, 2021.

"Ordered Spaces in Paradise Lost," Medieval and Renaissance Studies Organization Symposium, Virtual Conference, Texas Tech University, September 18-19. 2020.

"The Child as an Arrow: Seventeenth Century Conception of Children and their Education in Paradise Lost," The Conference on John Milton, University of Alabama Birmingham, October 18-19, 2019.

"Reading Air from Female Spectacle in Titus Andronicus," The South-Central Renaissance Conference, Texas Tech University, April 11-13, 2019.