Caitlin Kelly
Senior Academic Professional and Director, Naugle Writing and Communication Center
- Writing and Communication Program
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Overview
Caitlin Kelly is the Director of the Naugle Communication Center. She holds a MA from the University of Tennessee and a PhD from the University of Missouri. Kelly’s professional interests include writing pedagogy, writing program administration, leadership development in writing centers, and 18th-century British literature and culture. Kelly has presented her research at conferences including the International Writing Centers Association, Southeastern Writing Center Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, among others. In 2020 she was a breakout speaker at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting. Kelly’s work has been published in The Explicator, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Pedagogy, Age of Revolutions, and ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830.
- PhD in English, University of Missouri
- MA in English, University of Tennessee
- BA in English, University of Central Arkansas
Distinctions:
- Buzz Award for Spirit of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts (2025)
Interests
multimodal communication
writing pedagogy
tutor training
18th-century fiction
Jane Austen
tutor training methods
graduate student writing support
18th-century literature and culture
- Communication
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Communication
- Higher Education: Teaching and Learning
- Interdisciplinary Learning and Partnering
- Literature
Courses
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
- LMC-3202: Studies in Fiction
- LMC-3226: Major Authors
- LMC-3813: Comm Theory, Pedagog, Prac: (In Person)
- LMC-3813: Communication Theory &Pedagogy: (Online Asynchronous)
Publications
Journal Articles
- Guidebooks, Itineraries, and Ways of Seeing: Scripting Tourism in Northanger Abbey
In: Persuasions [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- Hamilton and the Bibliographic Revolution in the Classroom
In: Age of Revolutions [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2020
- An Approach to Serving Faculty in the Writing Center
In: WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
Presentations
- Remixing Approaches to Professionalization: Threshold Concepts as Rubrics to Identify and Evaluate Leadership Development Opportunities in Writing Centers
In: Conference in College Composition and Communication
Date: 2025
- Threshold Concepts, Emergent Technologies, and Developing Future Writing Center Leaders
In: International Writing Centers Association
Date: 2024
Updated: Dec 11th, 2025 at 2:05 PM