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Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia
M.A. in English, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
B.A. with Honors in Religion, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Graduate Certificate in Apologetics, Evangelical Seminary, Myerstown, Pennsylvania
Dr. Graves teaches courses in British literature, creative writing, grammar, faith integration, and TESOL. In addition, she coordinates the undergraduate TESOL certificate and the Applied Linguistics minor for the Department of Humanities in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Dr. Graves grew up in a missions-oriented home—her parents were missionaries in northeastern Nigeria—so the cross-cultural nature of the Kingdom of God has always been very real for her. As a teacher, she strives to make her classes places where the Holy Spirit can breathe on subject matter so that students might learn to love Him with their minds as well as with their hearts, souls, and strength. Her research interests include apologetics, the imagination, embodied cognition, and the intersection of these with a biblical exercise of the prophetic and God’s stated desire for a prophetic people (Acts 2:17).
Her husband, Professor Andrew Graves, also works for Southeastern as a librarian and teacher. Together with Dr. Joshua Britt, Study Abroad Director and professor of history, they lead a popular study abroad trip every summer to the United Kingdom. The Graves have five children; the youngest two, daughter Alix (2012) and son Philip (2016), are proud Southeastern alumni.
