Carrie Y. Hess

Carrie Hess graduated from the Andrews University English Department with a emphasis in composition and secondary education in 1999. Following that she spent four years teaching high school English at Broadview Academy in Illinois and seventeen years teaching high school English at Spencerville Adventist Acedemy. The later years of her teaching at SAA focused on upper-division high school courses. She also chaired the high school curriculum committee for many years.

In the fall of 2019, she decided to transition to full-time academia at Western Michigan University. She began her PhD studies in literature in the fall of 2020. Her areas of emphasis are Romantic and Victorian British literature, specifically film adaptations of texts from those eras. An additional area of interest is Agatha Christie's Golden Age mysteries, and her dissertation focuses on two of her texts and their 1970s and 2000s adaptations, paying special attention to the roles mothers, daughters, and wives/significant others play in the texts.