Caroline Wilkinson

Caroline Wilkinson holds a Ph.D. in English with Creative-Writing Dissertation from University of Tennessee, Knoxville and an MFA in Fiction from Washington University in Saint Louis. For over ten years, she has taught college-level English, including courses in composition, creative writing, professional writing, and literature. At UMA, she teaches composition online with an emphasis on constructing powerful arguments for both academic and public audiences. 

Her interest in reaching literary, popular, and academic audiences shapes her multi-genre writing. Her fiction explores estates and mansions along the Hudson River, including one fictional home that appears in Henry James’s The Portrait of the Lady. In an article forthcoming in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Dr. Wilkinson examines the symbolic function of this home in James’s novel in relation to the house’s historical connection to the Underground Railroad. 

In all her courses, Dr. Wilkinson enjoys working one-on-one with students throughout the writing process. From brainstorming to revising, she helps students develop their ideas and clarify their writing through virtual meetings and personalized feedback.

Recent Publications 

Articles

“Beyond Isabel Archer’s Door: The Underground Railroad and the Condemned Plot for Freedom.” Forthcoming in NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction.

“The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit.” Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 49, no. 2, 2018, pp. 330-348. 

“The ‘Former Sun’ in the Sidereal Clock: The Kabbalistic Heavens and Time in The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda.” George Eliot – George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 68, no. 1, 2016, pp. 25–42.

Short Fiction and Poetry  

“Dear Kay.” Witness Magazine, vol. 32, no. 2, Winter 2019. 

“Get In,” “Come On, Landscape!” and “Analogous.” DIAGRAM, issue 9, no. 3, June 2019. 

“Communications for Health-Care Worker.” Fourteen Hills, vol. 25, 2019.  

“Roller-skating in a Redlined Neighborhood.” descant, vol. 57, Jan. 2018, pp. 89-90.

“Went to Tennessee.” Permafrost Magazine, issue 40, no. 2, Summer Online 2018.

“Lyme Disease.” Sonora Review, vol. 71, Fall/Winter 2016, p. 27.

“Georgia on Forty-Fourth” and “Undertow.” DIAGRAM, issue 16, no. 14, August 2016.

“Lettie from the Ocean,” an interactive piece designed for the iPhone. Drunken Boat, issue 22, 2015. Archived online at www.lettiefromtheocean.com.