Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature and a co-founder of the award-winning open access journals publishing platform Open Library of Humanities with Professor Martin Eve, which officially launched in September 2015 with a $741,000 3-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

She is known for her advocacy in open access publishing. She is also a Founding and Commissioning Editor of the open access journal of 21st-century literary criticism, Alluvium.

Her research focuses on the utopian imagination in contemporary literature, science fiction, apocalyptic narratives, and Western Marxism.

She joined Birkbeck in September 2013 and was made a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in 2016. Caroline was also elected as Secretary of the British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies.