Emily Harrison is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has been teaching first-year composition courses since 2016. Most recently, she taught English 253: Introduction to Fiction. She is currently teaching English 102: English Composition II and English 295: Writing in the Workplace during the fall 2025 semester. Emily has also served as a tutor and tutor trainer in the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center where she was the recipient of the 2023-2024 John C. Hodges Award for Excellence as an Experienced Tutor.

Her research interests include twentieth-century literature, African American literature, and narratives of American modernism and modernity. Her work is typically invested in Black feminist theory. Her dissertation, “Minor Details: Tracing the Radical Potential of Minor Characters and Their Narrative Dynamics Through Urban Spaces of Early Twentieth-Century American Novels,” explores sociopolitical dynamics of narrative form, particularly in relation to characterization, in twentieth-century American novels.