Emma Zachurski
Assistant Professor
Emma Zachurski
Assistant Professor
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.