Caleb
Schrader
Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Teaching at Cairn since 2026

Caleb Daniel Schrader, MA

Education

  • MA in Texts, Technologies, and Literature, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • BA in English Composition and Rhetoric, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • BA in Arabic Linguistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Biography

Caleb Schrader is a scholar and teacher of rhetoric, composition, and literature. Before joining Cairn University, he served as an Instructor of Record for first-year composition at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he designed and taught composition courses. At Cairn, he teaches English Composition and Introduction to Public Speaking. His academic interests include rhetoric and composition, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and the relationship between the written word and the Christian imagination. Outside of teaching, Caleb enjoys playing piano and guitar, reading, and making coffee. He is excited to help Cairn students become thoughtful, disciplined, and rhetorically aware writers who pursue truth, communicate with clarity, and engage the world with wisdom and humility.

Additional Information

Academic Specialties & Interests:

  • Rhetoric and Composition
  • Critical Thinking and Literacy
  • J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis
  • Literature and the Christian Imagination
  • Literature and Christian Worldview
  • Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Literature

Courses Taught at Cairn:

  • English Composition
  • Remedial English
  • Introduction to Public Speaking

Previous Teaching:

  • First-Year Composition, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  • 2025 Oxford Study-Abroad Course: Tolkien, Lewis, Biophilia, and Technophobia

Select Academic Research:

  • “All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter”: Tolkien’s Expressions of Shifting
    Masculinity in 20th-Century Wartime England as Seen Through the Characters of Boromir, Faramir, and Aragorn 

– Master’s Thesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County