Meredith McCarroll

Meredith McCarroll teaches ENG 100 College Writing and ENG 102 Academic Writing at USM. She has taught First Year Writing, American Literature, Film, African-American Literature and Southern Literature at Bowdoin College, Clemson University, Northeastern University. She served as Director of Writing and Rhetoric for nearly a decade, is core faculty teaching nonfiction at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA program, and frequently teaches courses with Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.

Meredith’s writing includes academic work on film and representation in Appalachia (Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film, 2018) and her co-edited collection Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy won the American Book Award in 2019. Her political voice has been featured in The Boston Globe, CNN, MSNBC, All Things Considered and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Still, Bitter Southerner, Reckon Review, Cutleaf, Cleaver and elsewhere. Her most recent fiction was published at Salvation South. Her latest book, out on submission, is called Bloodlines, and explores issues of home, loss, and claims to Cherokee identity.