About

Emily’s work focuses on helping instructors create authentic learning experiences that bring a renewed sense of student agency and educational purpose to the college classroom.

Emily currently serves as Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) and Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. In her role at CETL, she collaborates with instructors across disciplines to develop effective, evidence-based teaching practices that support all students and help to mitigate opportunity gaps in higher ed. In her previous position as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Scholar at the University of Notre Dame, Emily launched and co-piloted the Inclusive Pedagogy Partnership, the university’s first student/faculty pedagogical partnership program. 

She writes publicly about her teaching experiences for a variety of venues. Her forthcoming books, Collaborative Grading: A Practical Guide (University of Oklahoma Press) and How to Grade: Alternative Models for the College Classroom (Princeton University Press), both focus on innovative grading methods for college educators. Her blog Unmaking the Grade documents her explorations of alternative grading and other progressive teaching practices. She appears frequently on podcasts and in higher-ed news media to discuss grading, generative AI, and other urgent issues in teaching and learning. 

Emily earned her PhD in English literature from the University of Notre Dame and holds master’s and undergraduate degrees from the University of Alabama and Austin Peay State University, respectively.