Associate Director for Graduate Student Writing Visiting Assistant Professor of History
[email protected]Please contact me for:
- Supporting graduate writing within your academic unit, department, or course.
- Sheridan programs and initiatives related to graduate student writing.
- Integrating Writing Center support into your undergraduate or graduate course.
- Joining one of our graduate writing communities (the Graduate Writing Collective, dissertation retreats, writing groups, and writing challenges).
- Questions regarding the Brown/RISD Museum Collaborative Workshop Series, or about using the RISD Museum for your undergraduate or graduate course.
Charles Carroll is Associate Director for Graduate Student Writing and Visiting Assistant Professor of History. In his role at Sheridan, he seeks to empower graduate students to become better writers and teachers of writing. He oversees Sheridan’s graduate writing communities, including the Graduate Writing Collective, dissertation retreats, writing groups, and writing challenges. He also directs the Writing Center, which supports an average of 3,500 undergraduate, graduate, faculty, staff, and alumni writers per year. For his collaborative work on antiracist writing pedagogies, he was recently named a co-recipient (with graduate proctor Britt Threatt) of the Council on College Composition and Communication's Emergent Researcher Award.
A first-generation college student, he holds a B.A. in history and religious studies from Saint Michael’s College, an M.A. in history from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and a Ph.D. in history from Brown University. Trained as a historian of medieval France and the Mediterranean world, his historical research combines the histories of rhetoric, education, the body, and masculinities to consider how gendered discourses shaped the institutional identity of the Parisian schools and university in the 12th and 13th centuries. His historical research was recently published in the journal Viator. He teaches courses on writing pedagogy as well as the history of Paris, the history of higher education, early and medieval Christian demonology, and the crusades.