Larissa C. Rector is a qualitative research Instructor in the College of Education's Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Her teaching experience, distinguished by over 13 years of service across different grade levels, is contiguous to a higher education Master’s Degree in Instructional Leadership and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction.

Rector is completing her Ph.D. in Exceptional Learning with a concentration in Literacy and Research at TTU with an expected defense in early spring of 2022.