Carol Mitchell

Assistant Professor

Composition: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;

Carol Mitchell is a term professor in the English Department. She holds an MFA from George Mason and brings to the classroom over 10 years of writing experience and expertise in a medley of disciplines including composition, education, publishing, business analysis, project management, technical writing, and software development. She is the author of several books for children and one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin'

Selected Publications

What Start Bad a Mornin' (Fiction) Pub date: September 19, 2023, Central Avenue Publishing

Grants and Fellowships

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow

Cheuse Center International Writers MFA Fellow

Courses Taught

ENGH 101: Composition

ENGH 302: Advanced Composition

Previous Courses

ENGH 398: Fiction Writing

ENGH 396: Intro to Creative Writing

ENGH 201: Reading and Writing about Texts

Education

MFA, Fiction, George Mason University, May 2020
Certificate in Professional Editing, Professional Sequence in Editing, University of California, Berkeley, April 2012
Certified Project Management Professional, 2006
MBA, Information Systems and Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
BS, Accounting and Economics, University of the West Indies, Barbados, W.I., 1991