Rachel Kilgore

Rachel Kilgore is a writer, consultant, and instructor in the writing program at SMU. For nearly a decade, she has trained students from widely diverse backgrounds and abilities to read the world with humble eyes, and to shape that world with well reasoned language. She particularly enjoys persuading “bad writers” to think of language as mathematical and oral, and therefore learnable; as a falcon was born for the air, so we were born for language.

She is an avid admirer of Jane Austen, who first directed her toward the theatre. Rachel’s subsequent study of the western novel’s rise from theatre culture in England trained her to consider audience and the spokenness of language and to enjoy movies, novels, and drama with greater gusto. She hopes that all studies of literature and language increase enjoyment of this richly worded world!

Rachel lives with her husband, Tedros Areguy, and her little dog, Peanut, in Oak Lawn where she enjoys not being in graduate school anymore! Once she has recovered, she will return to her favorite hobbies of crocheting, listening to audio-books, homemaking, and rambling around lakes and woods while having really great conversations.

Areas of Interest

Awards Distinctions

Baylor’s 19^th Century Research Seminar Graduate Paper Competition, October 2019 “Understanding Fanny: A Comparison of the Psalms o Fanny Price of Austen’s Mansfield Park”

Publications

 “Understanding Fanny: A Comparison of the Psalms o Fanny Price of Austen’s Mansfield Park.” Religion and the Arts, vol 24, no. 3, Aug. 2020, pp. 1-17