Elizabeth Tacke received her Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2020. Her interdisciplinary research interests are situated within disability studies, life writing studies, rhetoric, and critical prison studies.

Before returning to school for her doctoral degree, Elizabeth was an English middle school teacher in Oakland, California (where she was also a Panther). At Eastern, Elizabeth teaches methods courses for English Education majors, composition with a social justice lens, and disability, life writing, and rhetoric courses. 

Professor Tacke also teaches with the Eastern BA in Interdisciplinary Studies program at Danville Correctional.

In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys dabbling in new creative pursuits, binging television, reading for fun, and relaxing with her cats.