Biography - Kathryn A Broyles

Kathryn Broyles is the current Program Director for General Education and General Studies. She holds a Bachelor's degree in English with a minor in History, as well as a Master's in English from Tennessee Tech. She also holds a Master of Divinity with a Certificate in Gender, Theology and Ministry, and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Duke University. She is presently a doctoral candidate in the Program in Composition and TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language) at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Broyles has taught first-year Writing and Advanced Composition, World Literature including Middle Eastern and Southern literature, and courses in Philosophy and Religion at a number of US and international institutions. In addition to American Military University, some of these are Warner Southern College, Northwest Missouri State, Tennessee Tech, Nashville Tech, Concordia University (Tallinn, Estonia) and the Pedagogiska Fakulta (Usti nad Labem, CZ).

Her five years teaching in the Czech Republic and Estonia and her love of travel stem directly from growing up in a Marine Corps family. Some of the places her travels have taken her include Turkey, Jordan, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, and much of Western Europe.

Ms. Broyles' scholarly interests are multi-disciplinary. She is currently focused on gendered language use in religious discourse and the socio-cultural issues of academic English and the first-year writing student.

When she’s not teaching or studying, she’s painting, heading to a Pilates class, or going on a walk with Ben the dog.