Rebecca Harrison, Ph.D.

Professor of English
School of Humanities College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

678-839-4868
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Rebecca Harrison, Ph.D.

Dr. Rebecca L. Harrison, Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, teaches a broad range of courses in American and Women’s Literature, Gender Studies, and innovative pedagogy. Harrison is the 2015 Robert Reynolds Awardee for Excellence in Teaching, UWG's 2016 winner of the University System of Georgia Regents Scholarship of Teaching & Learning award, and the 2022 Honors College Research Mentor of the year. She has published articles on Southern writers such as Eudora Welty and Beatrice Witte Ravenel, and she served as the 2016 Obama Fellow for Southern literature at the Transnational American Studies Institute at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Her book length works reflect her diverse research interests as well. Her co-edited edition Inhabiting La Patria (2013) is the first critical collection devoted to the works of Julia Alvarez, and her two most recent books, Revitalizing Classrooms: Innovations and Inquiry Pedagogies in Practice (2017) and Teaching, Pedagogy, and Learning: Fertile Ground for Campus and Community Innovations (2017), showcase cross-disciplinary inquiry based learning strategies. Harrison currently serves as the President of the Eudora Welty Society and as Co-Editor of the Eudora Welty Review.

  • M.A., English, Georgia State University, 1997
  • Ph.D., English, Georgia State University, 2007

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