Linda Frost

Linda Frost is a Full Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga but came to UTC as the founding Dean of the UTC Honors College in 2013. Prior to coming to Chattanooga, she was first the Associate Director of the University Honors Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and later, the Director of the Honors Program at Eastern Kentucky University. She is the author of Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850-1870(University of Minnesota Press, 2005), Conjoined Twins in Black and White: The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), and Housing Honors (The National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015), a collection of essays about honors buildings and spaces. She was the founding editor of the award-winning women’s literary magazine, PMS poemmemoirstory (now Nell). A member of the first living learning community at her own alma mater, Bowling Green State University, Frost is the mother of two college-going children, both of whom are happily seated in honors programs of their own.