Dr. Judith L. Carter

Professor of English

BA, English, Texas Woman’s University
MA, English and Technical Writing, University of North Texas
PhD, English and Rhetoric, Texas Woman’s University
Certification, Developmental Education Specialist, Appalachian State University

Dr. Carter started at AC in 1999 as the Developmental English Coordinator. She now teaches freshman composition and business and professional writing. Before coming to AC, Dr. Carter worked in business and banking as a computer operator. Her research interests are technical writing and protest rhetoric of women who wrote from 1860-1920, such as Rebecca Harding Davis and Mary Hunter Austin. Dr. Carter's hobbies are reading traditional, paranormal, and science fiction mysteries; cross-stitching; hiking; and photographing different elements of the natural world.

Dr. Chris Hudson

Professor of English

BA, Plan II (Philosophy), The University of Texas at Austin
MA, Latin American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
PhD, English, The University of Texas at Austin 

Dr. Hudson has taught at Amarillo College since 2018. He has been on the AC Rank, Tenure, and Promotion Committee; Faculty Senate (Senator 2023-24, Vice-President 2024-25, President 2025-26); and various other department and college-wide committees. He is the Director of the Creative Mind Lecture Series. 

Before AC, he taught at UT Austin, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College (where he chaired the Languages and Literature Department), and WTAMU. He teaches Freshman Comp I and II, American Literature, Shakespeare, and Selected Topics (Border Literature,  Southern Gothic and Grotesque Stories, and the Stories of George Saunders). 

An Amarillo native, he has lived in Austin; San Antonio; New York City; Xalapa, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; São Paulo, Brazil; and Indiana. While in Austin, Dr. Hudson worked as Director of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and Chief of Staff for State Senator Judith Zaffirini, Dean of the Texas Senate. 

His interests include contemporary literature, politics, and rowing. 

Carol B. Summers

Associate Professor of English

B.A. Elementary Education, Wayland Baptist University
M.Ed., Reading/Literacy, Eastern New Mexico University
M.A., English, West Texas A&M University 

Carol Summers, Associate Professor of English, has a Master of Arts degree in Reading from Eastern New Mexico University (2012) and a Master of English degree from West Texas A&M University (2022). Mrs. Summers has a diverse background that includes teaching different subjects at levels ranging from Elementary School to College. She started teaching in 1985 and has been at Amarillo College since 2004. She primarily teaches INRW and Freshman Composition linked as co-requisite courses and Freshman Comp I and II.

Jeff "Skip" Chisum

Assistant Professor of English

BA, English, Oklahoma Panhandle State University
MS, Counselor Education/Student Development in Higher Ed., Emporia State University

Skip Chisum has taught at Amarillo College since 2018 and joined the English department as a full-time instructor in 2021, primarily teaching English Composition I and II.  Prior to arriving at AC, he served as Director of the Jack B. Kelley Student Center/C.O.R.E. at West Texas A&M University for 18 years.

Chisum is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity (TKE) and the National Organization for Student Success (NOSS), has served as a senator in the Faculty Senate at Amarillo College, serves as a mentor to first-year faculty at Amarillo College through Teaching for Transformation, and serves as advisor to the AC chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta, the national English honor society for two-year colleges.

Dr. Lori Boykin

Instructor of English

B.A. English Literature, Baylor University
M.A. English Literature, Baylor University
Ph.D. English, Texas Tech University (Specialization in Linguistics)

Dr. Boykin began teaching at Amarillo College in 1992 as an adjunct faculty member. For six years, she taught Composition I and II at Amarillo College before going to teach at West Texas A&M University for three years. She taught History of the English Language and Advanced Grammar, as well as composition courses at West Texas A&M. In 2008, Boykin became the head lecturer for Bible Study Fellowship (Amarillo Day Class), a Bible study involving hundreds of women from various denominations in Amarillo. In 2022, she returned to Amarillo College and has been teaching composition classes. In addition to teaching, she enjoys hiking, cooking and travel.