Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she currently holds the inaugural Jonathan M. Hess Term Professorship. She researches, writes, and teaches about rhetoric, literacy, and writing studies. Her primary research investigates how communities teach, practice, and understand what it means to be a citizen. Her first book, Resisting Brown​ (Pittsburgh, 2018), examined a free school's approach to teaching literacy and citizenship during the American Civil Rights Movement. She is currently working on several projects that creatively connect her interests in literacy, rhetoric, citizenship, and pedagogy. Her second project examines conceptions of global citizenship through transcultural fandom experiences in the BTS ARMY fandom.