Carol Fitzpatrick

Areas of Interest: Composition and Rhetoric, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century  American and British Literature, and Southern Literature

Email: cfitzpat@umbc.edu

Office location: PAHB 312

Office phone: 410-455-2050

M.A. in English, SUNY at Stony Brook

B.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Carol Fitzpatrick, Teaching Professor, was the Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Division of the English Department from 1996 to 2009. Since 2009, she has been the Associate Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Division until Fall 2015 when she once again became the Director. In her classes, she  typically incorporates technology through Blackboard sites and encourages active student participation.

Her most recent book, co-written with Marybeth Ruscica and Vince Fitzpatrick, is The Complete Sentence Workout Book with  Readings, 5th ed. (Boston, MA: Longman, 2004). Vince Fitzpatrick was the co-author also on the 2nd alternate edition of The Complete Sentence Workout Book (Heath, 1991). With Marybeth  Ruscica Carol Fitzpatrick has co-authored Reading  Thresholds, 2nd ed. (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999); Reading Passages (Lexington, MA: D. C.  Heath and Company, 1997); Reading  Pathways, 2nd ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1995); The Complete Sentence Workout Book, 3rd  ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1994); The Complete Paragraph Workout Book: A Concise Guide to the Writing  Process, 2nd ed. (Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1993); The Complete Writer’s Workout Book (Lexington,  MA: D. C. Heath and Company, 1988). She also has written travel articles for the Baltimore Sun and magazine articles.