Brooke A. Carlson (he/him/his), PhD, teaches rhetoric and composition, literature and Shakespeare, under the auspices of a general education at an institution of higher education. A Colorado native and son of public-school teachers, Carlson earned a bachelor’s degree in English and French at Bowdoin College, taught high school English for five years in Portland, Maine, and then earned a PhD in Early Modern Literature at the University of Southern California. Carlson taught internationally in Seoul, South Korea, and Honolulu, Hawai’i, before returning to the US and Colorado, where he is now an Instructor of English at Colorado Mesa University.