Caroline Fitzpatrick


Biography

Dr. Caroline (Carrie) Fitzpatrick’s passport is well worn and her field journal is full of stories. Whether it is traveling to foreign locales or editing the pages of a professional work, she advocates positive creative expression and transformative education. She maintains a weekly blog to support liberal arts and free speech, and she engages in philanthropic work with literacy outreach. As a scholar, Fitzpatrick presents/publishes both nationally and internationally and serves on editorial boards. Traveling throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, her specialties include media advocacy, rhetoric and composition, communication law, qualitative research, and cultural studies. Currently, she serves as the Vice President/President Elect of the International English Honor Society, the second largest honor society with over 870 chapters located in the United States and abroad, and approximately 9,000 members inducted annually. In 2010, she served as the Convention Chair of the honor society's conference, Storytellers, held in St. Louis, Missouri, that hosted more than a thousand convention participants. Dr. Caroline (Carrie) Fitzpatrick’s passport is well worn and her field journal is full of stories. Whether it is traveling to foreign locales or editing the pages of a professional work, she advocates positive creative expression and transformative education. She maintains a weekly blog to support liberal arts and free speech, and she engages in philanthropic work with literacy outreach. As a scholar, Fitzpatrick presents/publishes both nationally and internationally and serves on editorial boards. Traveling throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, her specialties include media advocacy, rhetoric and composition, communication law, qualitative research, and cultural studies. Currently, she serves as the Vice President/President Elect of the International English Honor Society, the second largest honor society with over 870 chapters located in the United States and abroad, and approximately 9,000 members inducted annually. In 2010, she served as the Convention Chair of the honor society's conference, Storytellers, held in St. Louis, Missouri, that hosted more than a thousand convention participants.

Research Interest

Fitzpatrick is active in adult and graduate education as a member of the research faculty; mentors student research; judges academic competitions, and holds a position on the University’s Institutional Review Board (IRB). In addition to her teaching and scholarship, she has served Alvernia University in administrative positions as the Founding Coordinator of the Schuylkill Center Off-Site, Director of Instructional Standards; Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies for Community Leadership; and as the first Director of Distance Education (DE), during which online offerings increased threefold within two years. Currently, she is exploring projects that tap into her values connecting creative expression, community sustainability, and worldwide literacy efforts.