Kassia Krone is the author of Hollywood’s Monstrous Moms: Vilifying Mental Illness in Horror Films and the co-author of Yours in Filial Regard: The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family. Her work also appears in Mississippi Quarterly. Her research interests include Southern literature, gothic literature, film, disability studies, digital humanities, epistolary studies, and women and gender studies. She received the W.A. Young Teaching Award for outstanding teaching at Friends. Wichita Business Journal has recognized her for her work with DEI. She is the current chair of general education and co-chair of the Diversity Leadership Council at Friends. She serves on the Board of Regents as High Plains Regent for Sigma Tau Delta, and she is the chapter advisor for Friends’ local chapter of the international English Honor Society: Alpha Theta Beta. She is the current sponsor of Friends University’s The MEWS and English Club. She teaches a wide range of English courses in addition to general education classes at Friends University.
Education:
B.A., M.A., Hardin Simmons University; Ph.D., Texas Christian University