Carole Center, Ph.D., Director, Writing Program, Assistant Professor, English
Degree(s): B.A., Simmons College
M.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston
M.A., Northeastern University
Ph.D., University of Rhode Island

Carole Center is a composition specialist whose interests center on rhetoric and the teaching of writing. She is particularly interested in investigating the best ways to teach college students to read critically and to write persuasively. In her scholarship on writing pedagogy, she has focused her work on the effects of race and gender on classroom interactions, contrasts in the rhetorical patterns of diverse cultures, and students' use of evidence from the texts they are reading. She has published articles in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), and Journal of Basic Writing. She participates in the College Composition and Communications Conference sponsored by the National Council for the Teaching of English and the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Before coming to Lasell, Carole taught first-year writing at Northeastern University, UMass/Boston, Bunker Hill Community College, and Stonehill College. Carole's teaching philosophy is founded on respect for students' intellectual curiosity and desire to communicate effectively to others. She works with students to build on their existing competency as readers and writers. Carole Center writes: "I believe that a good teacher is a reflective teacher, one who consults with colleagues, attends to the scholarship in her discipline, and pursues her own scholarship in order to read and write her way to new ideas."