LTC Hodde joined the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at VMI as an Assistant Professor in 2016, and was awarded tenure in 2023. She previously taught at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, Mary Baldwin University, and Hollins University, where she offered undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education, literacy, children’s literature, and the humanities. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with a concentration in Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Culture, from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in English and Drama from William Smith College. She also has over twenty years of experience developing curricula and outreach programming for nonprofit organizations, K-12 schools, and creating community theater projects, such as A Wild Notion, funded by the VA Commission on the Arts, and performed at Boxerwood in October 24.

LTC Hodde teaches courses in community-based writing and fieldwork (ERH 411), contemporary drama and literature (ERH 203 & 230), writing for nonprofits and technical communication (ERH 312/314) and Writing and Rhetoric (101/102). She also advises students on Fieldwork opportunities for completing the English Major and enjoys designing projects in educational research and community writing with cadets. Recent cadet fieldwork includes the Rockbridge Memoir Project with local writers, and Expeditionary Learning with Rockbridge County Schools grades 5-12.

Her research and teaching explore intersections between creative discourse, pedagogy, and multimodal forms of social literacy, including community-based narratives, documentary theatre, and arts-based learning. She has presented scholarship at numerous conferences for the LifeWriting Conference, the American Education Research Association, the Modern Language Association, the Comparative Drama Conference, and is at work on several research projects in memoir and performance discourse. Her case study, “Dramagirls Worldcraft: Teaching Artist Platforms for Spectacle Theatre” appears in July 2023 issue of the International Journal of Education and the Arts (IJEA). Her chapter, “Up Close and Wide Awake: Participating in Anna Deavere Smith’s Social Theater” appears in the book, Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today’s Studio, Classroom, and Communities (Routledge, 2020).

Associate Professor
English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies