Carol directs the Writing Center and the Writing Fellows Program and teaches courses that explore the relationships between writing, language background, culture, and pedagogy, also the focus of her research. She teaches two tutor preparation seminars: Teaching in a Writing Center for graduate students preparing to tutor in the Writing Center, and Writing Theory and Practice with Megan Knight. She also teaches Topics in Second Language Acquisition: Writing for the FLARE program and Travel Writing for the Non-Fiction Program. She was a Collegiate Teaching Award winner in 2003.

Carol serves on the editorial boards of College Composition and Communication, the Journal of Second Language Writing, and Writing Center Journal. With Jessica Williams, she co-edited a special issue (September, 2004) of the Journal of Second Language Writing on Second Language Writers and Writing Centers. Her most recent publications are “International Students in a Learning Center: Self-Perceptions of Their EFL and ESL Preparation for Academic Writing in the U.S” in The Learning Assistance Review( Fall, 2004); an article she wrote with Mary Trachsel, “Starting a Writing Fellows Program: Crossing Disciplines or Crossing Pedagogies” in volume 11 of the International Journal of Learning; and a chapter “Crossing Cultures with International ESL Writers” in A Tutor’s Guide 2nd Edition (Ben Rafoth, Editor, 2005)  She was a leader in the Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals in Summer, 2005: www.writing.ku.edu/SI05/leaders/

Syllabi
• Forms of Nonfiction: Reading and Writing Travel Essays
• Honors 143:102 Writing Fellows: Writing Theory and Practice
• Teaching in a Writing Center (10:375/8N:375)
• FLARE 164:227 Topics in Second Language Acquisition: Writing