Randi Lynn Tanglen, Ph.D., is Executive Director of Humanities Montana, the state’s affiliate council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She was previously professor of English, director of Gender Studies, and director of the Robert and Joyce Johnson Center for Faculty Development and Excellence in Teaching at Austin College in Sherman, Texas where she taught classes on U.S. women and minority writers. Her co-edited volume Teaching Western American Literature appeared from University of Nebraska Press in 2020, and her essays on American women writers, captivity literature, and liberal arts and feminist pedagogy have been published in Western American Literature, Southwestern American Literature, and several edited volumes. She has regularly published guest articles in the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Tribune, the Missoulian, and the Billings Gazette.
Randi was born in Sidney, Montana and received degrees from Rocky Mountain College, the University of Montana, and the University of Arizona. She currently lives in Missoula, Montana.