Dr. Audrey Forrest-Carter Named Interim Chair

Dr. Audrey Forrest-Carter, an associate professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Winston-Salem State University, was recently appointed Interim Chair of the department, effective July 1.

Dr. Audrey Forrest-Carter

Dr. Forrest-Carter, who brings more than 30 years of college-level teaching experience to her new position, began her teaching career as an English instructor at Winston-Salem State in 1979 after receiving her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Bennett College in 1978.  While teaching at WSSU in 1979, Forrest-Carter became a teaching fellow at NC A&T State University, while pursuing a master’s degree in English and Afro-American Literature. She also served as assistant director of the Writing Center at WSSU.

She left WSSU in 1984 to pursue a Ph. D. in English at Miami University of Ohio through a Faculty Development Grant and a North Carolina Board of Governor’s Grant. While at Miami University, she served as a teaching fellow. She earned her Ph.D. in 1990 and returned to WSSU as an assistant professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, where she served from 1990 to 1992.

In 1992, Dr. Forrest-Carter joined the faculty at NC A&T State University as an assistant professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences. She served there until 2001. During her tenure at A&T, she served one year (2000-2001) as assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Forrest-Carter rejoined the faculty at WSSU in 2001. During her career at WSSU, she has helped redesign an English course using WriteSpace as a teaching tool; made presentations on ways to improve student-writing skills; and, created a digital portfolio for Honors English. She was a participant in WSSU’s Distance Learning Boot Camp in 2007 and developed an online course in advanced composition.

She has served as an alternate on the WSSU Faculty Senate and as a contributing writer for WSSU’s SACS Quality Enhancement Plan.

She has been an entrepreneur, having owned and operated Courtesy Kids, an etiquette school for children in Greensboro for nearly two years. She is poet and a writer, having authored two books, The Wages of Sin in 2004 and Judge Not! in 2005.

Her awards and special recognitions include:

Marquis Who’s Who in America, 2009;

The Round Table Group, 2009;

The Winston-Salem State University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2009;

Novel Interview, The Wages of Sin: Black Authors Network Radio show, 2008;

Cambridge Who’s Who Among Executive and Professional Women, 2008;

Editor’s Choice: World of Poetry, 2007;

The Winston- Salem State University John Fountain Master Teacher Award, 2005;

Honors College Professor: Winston-Salem State University, 2004-Present;

Who’s Who Among American Teachers, 1996 to Present;

North Carolina Board of Governor’s Grant, 1988 to 1990.

Who’s Who Among Black Americans, 1987 to Present; and,

Silver Poet:  World of Poetry, 1986.

Her professional associations include membership in the North Carolina Teachers of English Association and the National Council of Teachers of English.

She is a member of Mount Zion Baptist in Greensboro. She also serves as a judge for senior thesis at Caldwell Academy also in Greensboro.<–>