Kourtney Hake

Kourtney Hake

Kourtney Hake has been teaching English at various levels since 2014 and currently works at Sparta Lincoln School in Sparta, Illinois. She teaches eighth-grade English language arts (ELA), but has taught all levels of high school, as well as first-year writing at the college level.

Kourtney has been a member of the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), the Illinois Reading Council (IRC), and the Illinois Association of Teachers of English (IATE) since 2014. While in graduate school, she presented her writing at numerous conferences, including the Newberry Library Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference and the Saint Louis University Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Kourtney graduated magna cum laude from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2014, with a bachelor’s degree in English education and a minor in speech communication. She graduated summa cum laude from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in 2019 with a master’s degree in American and English literature. Her research focuses on the perception of Shakespeare’s female characters in the modern secondary classroom.