Carole E. Tallant, Professor   
  Director, Storytelling in the Community
  Office: Leutze Hall # 221
  Phone: (910) 962-3443
  Fax: (910) 962-7061
  tallantc@uncw.edu

Carole Tallant, (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) teaches courses in performance studies and storytelling.  Her research interests include the analysis of literature through its performance, the performance of children’s literature, storytelling for young children, and pedagogy.  She has won the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, the Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award, the Board of Trustees’ Teaching Excellence Award, and the Pandion Society Golden Seahawk Award for Outstanding Faculty.  She was also named the North Carolina Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.