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Emma Zachurski

Assistant Professor

RIT Kosovo

Office Hours
Monday and Wednesday, 12- 3 pm or Tuesday and Thursday afternoon by appointment
Office Location
-306

Emma Zachurski

Assistant Professor

RIT Kosovo

Bio

Emma received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in March, 2021. Her studies and dissertation examined the relationship between the Visual Arts, Film, and Literature through the topics of spatial representation and techniques of formal innovation. As a scholar, her research focuses on works written in English, French, Polish, Russian, and Italian from all over the world and from various experimental literary and artistic movements of the 20th Century (ex. Situationist International, Oulipo, Fluxus).


Her teaching experience has covered an array of material in the Humanities. During her Graduate Studies at Harvard, she taught student sections in courses on Existentialist Literature and Philosophy, the History of Rock and Roll, Mass Media and Popular Culture, and Technology and Early Visual Culture. Additionally, she worked as a tutor with Harvard’s Comparative Literature Tutorial Board to individually mentor students in the study of Literature, Foreign Languages, and Essay Writing. Following the completion of her PhD, she was a Lecturer at Princeton University’s English Department where she taught for a course on the International History of Children’s Literature.


At RIT Kosovo, Emma is teaching courses in the First Year Writing program. She is dedicated to making the classroom an imaginative and informative space for developing reading and writing skills through activities, discussions, and assignments that engage each student in creative, critical, and analytical thought. As a life-long learner of Foreign Languages (now learning Japanese as a sixth language), she is also understanding of the challenges and joys of multilingualism and looks forward to supporting students in developing their English fluency and encouraging them onwards in their college writing. 

Currently Teaching

UWRT-150
3 Credits
Writing Seminar is a three-credit course limited to 19 students per section. The course is designed to develop first-year students’ proficiency in analytical and rhetorical reading and writing, and critical thinking. Students will read, understand, and interpret a variety of non-fiction texts representing different cultural perspectives and/or academic disciplines. These texts are designed to challenge students intellectually and to stimulate their writing for a variety of contexts and purposes. Through inquiry-based assignment sequences, students will develop academic research and literacy practices that will be further strengthened throughout their academic careers. Particular attention will be given to the writing process, including an emphasis on teacher-student conferencing, critical self-assessment, class discussion, peer review, formal and informal writing, research, and revision. Small class size promotes frequent student-instructor and student-student interaction. The course also emphasizes the principles of intellectual property and academic integrity for both current academic and future professional writing.