Rebecca Harrison, Ph.D.
Professor of English
678-839-4868
rharriso@westga.edu
Boyd Building - Room 315
Office Hours
See Course Syllabus.
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.
- B.A., Special Honors Curriculum, Hunter College: City University of New York, 1994
- M.A., English, Georgia State University, 1997
- Ph.D., English, Georgia State University, 2007
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II-Honors)
- ENGL-2190 (TheShortStoryOfAmericanWomen)
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology)
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing)
- ENGL-4005 (Teaching American Lit)
- ENGL-4106 (Studies in Genre: Short Fict)
- ENGL-4109 (FilmAsLit:Language(Un)Bound)
- ENGL-4384 (Sen.Sem. Bad Girls & The South)
- ENGL-5005 (Am Lit II)
- ENGL-5109 (Film as Literature)
- ENGL-6120 (Seminar in American Lit II)
- XIDS-2100 (Intro to Gender Studies)
Fall 2025 Sections
- ENGL-2190 (Lit by Women: The Short Story) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4384 (Sen.Sem. Bad Girls & The South) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2025 Sections
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4106 (Genre: Women's Short Fiction) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2024 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II) Section: 11 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2024 Sections
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 02W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4005 (AmLitII-TheNo/GoodWivesClub) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2023 Sections
- ENGL-2190 (Lit. by Women) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2190 (Literature by Women) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-6120 (American Lit II-Late American) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2023 Sections
- XIDS-2100 (Intro to Gender Studies) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2190 (Lit. by Women: The Short Story) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4384 (Sen.Sem. Bad Girls & The South) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2022 Sections
- ENGL-2190 (Lit. by Women: The Short Story) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing) Section: 01D external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3400 (Pedagogy and Writing) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-6120 (American Lit II-Southern Lit) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2022 Sections
- ENGL-2190 (Lit. by Women: The Short Story) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 02W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4384 (Sen.Sem. Bad Girls & The South) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2021 Sections
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4005 (Teaching American Lit) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4106 (Studies in Genre: Short Fict) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-5005 (Am Lit II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Spring 2021 Sections
- ENGL-3000 (Research and Methodology) Section: 02W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4109 (Film as Lit: Language Unbound) Section: 01W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-5109 (Film as Literature) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-6120 (Seminar in American Lit II) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
Fall 2020 Sections
- ENGL-1102 (English Composition II-Honors) Section: 25H external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-2190 (TheShortStoryOfAmericanWomen) Section: 01 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-4109 (FilmAsLit:Language(Un)Bound) Section: 02W external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource
- ENGL-5109 (Film as Literature) Section: 02 external Syllabus via Concourse External Resource