Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, sometimes known to her students as "CDBL," teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. A scholar of Neith Boyce, she teaches courses in biography, lifewriting, the research essay, science writing, the academic essay, and food writing. She also is editor-in-chief of Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies.