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Chantel L. Carlson

Chantel L. Carlson, Ph.D.

Senior Instructor

Reed Hall 126

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsEnglish
  • Gender & Sexuality /
  • Women's Literature /
  • 21st Century Literature /
  • Creative Writing

Education

Ph.D. in English with a concentration in creative writing, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2007
MA in English with a concentration in creative writing, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2002
BA in English, Texas A & M University, 1994

Courses Taught

Introduction to Fiction Literature
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Drama
Introduction to Creative Writing
Approaches to Film
Introductory Composition (Issues in American Popular Culture, Water, and Food and Culture)
Intermediate Composition (Visible Identities: Exploring Cultural Issues in Documentary Film, Humor as Argument, and Social Media and Gen Y)
Reading as a Writer
Introduction to Women’s Writing (WGST)
American Drama: The Evolution of the American Female Writer (WGST)
Drama Writing Workshop I
American Poetry
Performing Identity
American Drama: Women of the Stage (WGST)
Drama Writing Workshop II

Publication Production: eleven40seven

Publication Production: The Women's Center Monologues

Areas of Focus

Creative Writing
Drama and Performance Studies
Poetry and Poetics
20th and 21st Century American Literature
Gender Studies
Women's Writing
Film and Visual Culture

  • Oak Cradle.  Shanti Arts, 2024.  Link to Book
  • "Six Feet Apart."  Next Stage Press, 2022.  Link to Play
  • "Ode to the Backyard Dove."  Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, March 2022.  Web.
  • “Fixing What’s Broken on Monday Afternoon.” Anti-Heroin Chic, December 2021, https://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-chantel-l-carlson. Web.
  • “Pandemic Vibrations.”  TEJASCOVIDO, edited by Laurence Musgrove, Spring 2020, https://www.tejascovido.com/blog/pandemic-vibration. Web.
  • "The Night Stalker" and "Lake Martin."  Unlocking the Word: An Anthology of Found Poetry.  Ed. Jonas Zdanys.  Lamar University Literary Press, 2018.
  • "Quilled in Blue."  The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol VIII: Texas.  Ed. William Wright.  Texas Review Press, 2018.
  • "Distance."  Writing Texas: Vol V.  Ed. Lyman Grant.  Lamar University Literary Press, 2017-18.
  • "Avenue A," "A Mother's Grief," and "Jackson Square."  Writing Texas: Vol IV.  Ed. Lyman Grant.  Lamar University Literary Press, 2016-17.
  • “Play It Again, Dad: A Reflection on Memory, Movies, and R.P. McMurphy.” The Outtake. 1 December 2015.
  • “Aperture” and “Extraction.” Truck, 2014.
  • The Exhibit. Next Stage Press, 2014.
  • Turning 25. Nous-zot Press. 2012.
  • “Framing the Victorian Heroine: Representations of the Ideal Woman in Art and Fiction.” Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 22.2 (2005): 73-87.
  • “Burnout on the Frontlines: What Colleges of Education Fail to Teach.” Louisiana English Journal 9 (2004): 226-36.
  • Dean's Teaching Award Nominee, Spring 2023
  • English Department Teaching Award, Spring 2023
  • Jean Giles-Sims Wise Woman Award nominee: Spring 2024, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2014

Teacher Certification Program, Texas A & M University, December 1995.

Last Updated: March 04, 2025

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