Amy Carleton
Part-Time Lecturer in English
Amy Carleton’s academic research focuses on online communities as well as the intersection of race and digital culture. Outside of academia, her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The LA Review of Books, NPR, and others.
Both a music lover and advocate for knowledge equity, she is currently bridging her personal and academic interests by collaborating on a series of multi-city community outreach projects that use music as a vehicle to empower a more diverse editor base for Wikipedia and address content gaps on the encyclopedia. She is also working on a book about Prince fan culture.
Carleton also serves on the executive board of the Boston Art & Music Soul (BAMS) Fest, a local nonprofit that aims to break down racial and social barriers to arts, music, and culture within Greater Boston.
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Education
PhD, Northeastern University
MA, Northeastern University
BA, Simmons College -
Contact
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Address
431 Holmes Hall
360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115 -
Associations
Advanced Writing in the Social Sciences
ENGW 3308
Offers instruction in writing for students considering careers or advanced study in the social sciences. By exploring research literature and reflecting on their own experiences, offers students an opportunity to identify issues of interest and analyze how texts make claims, invoke other social science literature, offer evidence, and deploy key terms. Through analysis and imitation, exposes students to the challenges of the social science project, including the collection of data on human subjects and the ethical presentation of evidence. In a workshop setting, offers students an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review, and revision.
