Dr. Callie F. Kostelich

Education

Ph.D. Texas Christian University
M.A. Kansas State University
B.A. Lubbock Christian University

Interests

Literacy Studies
Rhetoric and Composition
Rural Studies
Writing Program Administration
Writing Theory and Pedagogy

Courses Taught

ENG 1310: Research Writing: Writing and Academic Inquiry Seminars
ENG 5310: Introduction to Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Bio

Callie F. Kostelich teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, composition, professional writing, and writing theories and pedagogies. Her research areas include first-year writing, writing program administration, rural and agricultural literacies, and women’s rhetorics.

Callie’s work has appeared in Composition Studies, Peitho,Open Words, and WPA: Writing Program Administration (fall 2025), as well as several published and forthcoming edited collections. She also co-authored two first-year writing textbooks for the First-Year Writing Program at Texas Tech University. Callie is a proud first-generation college student, and her rural roots deeply impact her life’s work, in and outside of the academy. Her in-progress monograph project, Sponsoring Agricultural Literacy: Literacies, Ideologies, and the Gentrification of Rural America, examines critical agricultural literacies as a subset of rural literacy scholarship and as a framework for grappling with how rurality is enacted, for what purposes, and to what ends for both rural spaces and her peoples.

Prior to joining the faculty at Baylor University, Callie was an assistant professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric and the Writing Program Administrator at Texas Tech University. While at Texas Tech, she was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Innovative Teaching Award (2024-2025), the Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for the Department of English (2020), and the Lawrence Shovanec Teaching Development Scholarship (2019). She was also an Alumni College Fellow with the Humanities Center (2019; 2022) and a fellow with the Ethics in Teaching and Learning Program (2023-2024). Additionally, she was a semi-finalist for the 2021 CCCC Excellence in Teaching Award.

Callie enjoys family time, antiquing, traveling, and being in the outdoors as often as possible! She is deeply committed to the people and places she holds dear, and she is delighted to be a new member of the Baylor family.