Emily Harrison is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Emily earned her B.A. in English and History from Georgetown College and her M.A. in English from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she completed her M.A. thesis, “Beyond Black and White: Visualizing Cultural Identity Amidst Racial Anxiety and Nativism in American Modernist Novels.” She has been teaching first-year composition courses at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville since 2016. She is also 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 and narratives of American modernism and modernity. Her work is typically invested in Black feminist theory and in the intersections between race and gender. She is currently working on her dissertation, which is investigating formal and narratological methodologies for reading minor and marginalized women characters in early twentieth-century American novels that align with Black feminist theorists’ calls for strategies that resist harmful structural practices of knowing.