Caroline is currently Learning Experience Designer in the Center for Learning & Teaching and Adjunct Professor in the Core Division at Champlain College in Burlington, VT. Her move into faculty development stemmed from her experiences training new graduate teaching associates at OSU through the former University Center for the Advancement of Teaching, as well as her work as an award-winning GTA and course designer teaching American religion, popular culture, and global literature in Comparative Studies. Her current position includes creating faculty workshops (particularly about course design, diversity, equity, inclusion, and effective use of technology), coaching individual faculty, and developing new initiatives for the CLT. She also teaches courses in Champlain’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Program and is part of a team pursuing grant funding to initiate a major project studying space, sound, and narratives of change in rural and urban Vermont. Caroline successfully defended her dissertation in March 2020, roughly a week into the pandemic shutdown, and has jokingly embraced the title of Plague Doctor. She continues to work on publications based on the dissertation, entitled "Wizarding Shrines and Police Box Cathedrals: Re-envisioning Religiosity through Fan and Media Pilgrimages," including a chapter in the upcoming second edition of Routledge’s Understanding Religion and Popular Culture. She plans to continue related research in the future, focusing on pilgrimages and other "religious doing" outside of cultural practices typically designated religion or spirituality.
