Carolyne M. King

The Graduate Reading Exchange

Carolyne King, a white woman with medium-length brown hair, smiles at the camera and wears a white jacket with an orange necklace

Carolyne M. King is assistant professor of English and the Director of First-Year Writing at Salisbury University. Her research on reading seeks to resist a primarily cognitive framework and instead privileges considerations of materiality and embodiment as structuring and constructing the meaning-making process. Her research interests include reading pedagogy, digital reading, and disability rhetoric, and her scholarship is published/forthcoming in venues such as College English, CCC, Pedagogy, Composition Studies, Praxisand Prompt. As the Director of First Year Writing, she leads the instructors who teach English 103 (Composition & Research) at Salisbury University, a regional comprehensive university with an MA in English. As she works closely to train graduate students as junior colleagues and teacher-researchers in their own right, she’s particularly focused upon the role of reading and the tension between the immediate and public community for graduate instructors (a facet of graduate reading, she has explored in a multi-institutional mixed method study with Lizzie Hutton).