Caroline was my favorite lecturer at CCS. I took her narrative prose class multiple times, her profiles classes are spectacular, she's funny, insightful and anyone who thinks she's boring is not paying attention. I felt like I got adequate feedback on my writing, both positive & critical. She introduced me to be about 90% of my favorite writers.

She's the absolute coolest, so funny and smart

She was awesome and the funniest, most insightful person on campus.

Caroline Allen is one of the greatest teachers I've ever had the pleasure of studying with. Her classes are both challenging and rewarding, and her warmth and brilliance are unmatched. Caroline is one of those people who has steeped herself in great books. Her classes are difficult, charming and hilarious. I always left wiser and still laughing

She's so funny. She makes the class worth it to show up every day and give it your all. I wish I could take every class with her.

Very intelligent lady. Good performer and writer.

She was awesome.

She is so funny, so smart, so full of wisdom, so valuable to the entire UCSB community. She gives so much to her students, and she's tactful and patient.

She is so intelligent and knowledgeable.

She was amazing and intelligent. She has such a sense for the importance of literature, for how writer's lives affected their work, for the technique of writers versus outpourings of feeling. This level of professor can only come with years of experience and thoughtfulness about her craft.

I felt like I became a completely different writer after I finished this class. Her attention to detail, her individual support for writers, her focus on good passages that exemplify a kind of carefulness and attention to detail--she's an artist and an academic and she has really good taste in writing. She's the best professor I've ever had.

She was so smart, so full of clarity, so knowledgeable about the material, so diplomatic when dealing with class members. She brings a lifetime of knowledge about literature and art and writing to every class. She is the best and most amazing professor I've ever had. She is natural, graceful, confident, and with an instinct for what's GOOD.