Revitalizing Classrooms: Innovations and Inquiry Pedagogies in Practice

Jeffery Galle is Associate Professor of English, founding Director of the Center for Academic Excellence, and organizer of IPLA at Oxford College of Emory University. Co-author of How to Be a ‘HIP’ Campus: Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education (2015) and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pedagogy and Place-Based Education: From Abstract to Quotidian (forthcoming May 2017), Galle’s scholarship focuses on pedagogies involving active learning, particularly those associated with experiential learning, place, and inquiry.

Rebecca L. Harrison, Associate Professor of English and Director of STEAM English at the University of West Georgia, teaches courses in Southern women writers, American literature, pedagogy, and secondary English education. A women’s literature specialist, Harrison has published on writers such as Eudora Welty and Beatrice Witte Ravenel, alongside her work on active pedagogies; her recent book Inhabiting La Patria, a critical collection on Julia Alvarez, was published by SUNY Press in 2013.