Dr. Brooke Covington is an assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University, where also acts as the academic director of the university’s Center for Community Engagement. Brooke aims to integrate community-engaged learning into the university’s curriculum by fostering deep, reciprocal, and sustainable connections between community partners, faculty, and students. 

Brooke is also the co-founder and co-director of the Tidewater Community Writing Center–a free-to-all writing support resource for local writers of all backgrounds and capabilities. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Writing from Virginia Tech, and her research interests include rhetorics of public memory, anti-oppressive forms of community engagement, and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Community Literacy Journal, Journal of Medical Humanities, Western Journal of Communication, and Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.