Natalie Carter is an Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Butler University.

Natalie Carter holds a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in American Literature and Culture from George Washington University.  Her research and pedagogical interests include trauma theory, gender and sexuality studies, and the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and violence in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century literary and cultural artifacts.  Scholarship includes publications on Dorothy Allison, Julia Alvarez, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as works addressing violence against women and race-related trauma in American society.  She teaches American Literature and Culture in addition to courses in the Honors and First-Year Seminar Programs, and is Affiliate Faculty in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) program.

Carter is an elected member of the Faculty Senate; a Social Justice and Diversity (SJD) Faculty Mentor; member of the FYS Advisory Committee; and the advisor for several student organizations. In 2019, she was named Butler University's Woman of Distinction.