Holly Middleton, Ph.D.

Holly Middleton, Ph.D., serves as the associate director of Engaged Scholarship, where she develops approaches to supporting the community-engaged research and teaching agendas of UNC Charlotte faculty. The CORE Series calendar of events and the annual faculty writing retreats are two such initiatives.

As a former tenured associate professor of English and writing program director, Dr. Middleton was driven by the question of whose literacy gets to count, and why. This resulted in an asset-based editorial pedagogy in her writing classes that increased student success and a research interest in exploring the tacit knowledge governing high-stakes writing evaluation. As a founding co-editor of the open-access journal Literacy in Composition Studies, she co-developed editorial policies and ways of working to increase fairness, transparency, and accessibility, and at High Point University she established support for faculty to meet narrative expectations for tenure and promotion.

Dr. Middleton earned a doctorate degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh.