Short CV

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Special Associate Professor, English Department, Colorado State University, 2023-present

English Department Assessment Coordinator, Fall 2025-present

Associate Director of the University Composition Program, 2023-present

Special Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, 2017-20213

Associate Director of the University Composition Program

Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2013-2017

Director of First-Year Writing, 2016-2017

Assistant Director of First-Year Writing, 2015-2016

 EDUCATION

Ph.D., Rhetoric and Writing, University of New Mexico. August 2013. Committee: Charles Paine (Chair), Linda Adler-Kassner, Cristyn Elder, and Gail Houston.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Edited Collections/Special Issue Journal:

Carter, Genesea M., and Aurora Matzke, editors. Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration. WAC Clearinghouse, 2023.

Carter, Genesea M., and Ricki-Ann Legleitner, guest editors. Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, special topic on positionality, intersectionality, and creating change, vol 5, no. 1, 2021.

Carter, Genesea M., and William H. Thelin, editors. Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class. Utah State UP, 2017.

Refereed Chapters and Articles:

Carter, Genesea M., Aurora Matzke, and Bonnie Vidrine-Isbell. “Navigating Networks and Systems: Practicing Care, Clarifying Boundaries, and Reclaiming Self in Higher Education Administration.” Transforming Leadership Pathways for Humanities Professionals in Higher Education, edited by Roze Hentschell and Catherine E. Thomas, Purdue UP, 2022.           

Carter, Genesea M. “Exploring the Diversity of Everyday Experiences through the Humans of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Facebook Assignment.” Writers: Craft & Context, 2021.

Carter, Genesea M., and Erin Gallegos. “Moving Beyond the Hype: What Does the Celebration of Student Writing Do for Students?” Composition Studies, 2017.

Carter, Genesea M. “Mapping Students’ Funds of Knowledge in the First-Year Composition Classroom.” Journal of Teaching Writing, 2015.

Carter, Genesea M. “Bypassing the Silence in the Technical and Professional Writing Classroom: Encouraging Agency through Discourse Analysis.” Open Words: Access & English Studies, 2015.

Referred Work Forthcoming:

Bradbury, Kelly, Genesea M. Carter, and Sue Doe. “Students’ Rights to Generative AI: Using Justice-based Literacies to Center the Human.” Digital Literacies for Human Connection: An Edited Collection on AI, VR/AR, and Social Media, edited by David Coad et al. NCTE Preorder.

Bradbury, Kelly, and Genesea M. Carter. “Linguistic Justice and Graduate Teaching Assistant Training: Reflection, Revision, and Response.” Reconceptualizing Response: Using Instructor Feedback to Promote Equity and Linguistic Justice in the Writing Classroom, edited by Kelly Blewett et al. Utah State UP. In Press.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NOTABLE INITIATIVES

  • Develop long-term program assessment model with faculty-led research questions, focus groups, and professional development across 6 composition courses, 30 GTAs, and 60 NTTF.

  • Design and facilitate monthly professional development for faculty, including workshops by Asao Inoue, April Baker-Bell, and James Rushing Daniel.

  • Spearhead move to engagement- and equity-based grading, informed by Ellen Carillo, Asao Inoue, Shawna Shapiro, and April Baker-Bell.

  • Facilitate integration of linguistic justice and critical language awareness in first-year composition custom reader with a minimum of 50% readings from a diverse authorship.

  • Initiate and oversee IRB research of programs that require upper-division composition courses; use research to update curriculum and course descriptions.

  • Develop and maintain policies and syllabi templates in collaboration with campus offices (Student Disability Center, Academic Integrity, First-Year Experience, Morgan Library, etc.).

  • Oversee faculty trainings in six program courses.

  • Initiate revision of NTTF hiring, onboarding, and mentoring for equitable hiring practices. 

NATIONAL PRESENTATIONS (2024-PRESENT)

“Valuing Student Voices: Using Critical Literacy Narratives to Create Conversations, Build Relationships, and Write Slowly in the Age of AI,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cleveland, roundtable presenter and chair, 3/6/2026.

“Valuing Student Voices: Using Critical Literacy Narratives to Transform Writing Pedagogy,” International Writing Across Curriculum Conference, Fort Collins, panel presenter, 7/19/2025.

“Students’ Rights to Generative AI: Remixing GTA and Writing Center Consultant Training through Justice-Based Multiliteracies,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Baltimore, roundtable presenter and chair, 4/11/2025.

“Strategically Integrating Linguistic Justice in GTA Training Across Contexts,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, roundtable presenter and chair, 4/5/2024.

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FACILITATED WORKSHOPS (2024-PRESENT)

“A Dialogue Centering Student Perspectives on Generative AI and Academic Writing,” The Institute for Learning and Teaching, AI Dialogues, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 2/5/2026. With Kelly Bradbury and Aly Welker.

“Writing for Enriched Learning,” The Institute for Learning and Teaching, Course Redesign Institute, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1/12-1/16/2026. With Kelly Bradbury, Leslie Davis, and Annie Halseth.

“Writing for Engaged Learning,” The Institute for Learning and Teaching, intensive Community of Practice, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 6/2-6/12/2025. With Kelly Bradbury, Leslie Davis, and Annie Halseth.

 “Empowering Students Through Generative AI: Enacting Their Rights to Language Literacy and Critical Literacy,” AI Series Workshop, The Institute for Learning and Teaching, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 2/25/25. With Kelly Bradbury and Sue Doe.

“Designing and Assessing Meaningful Writing Assignments in the Age of Generative AI,” CSU Assessment Office, AUCC 3B, 3C, and 3D Course Assessment Project, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 11/14-11/15/2024. With Kelly Bradbury.