Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) offers Academic Learning Communities (ALCs) each semester. ALCs are designed to provide opportunities for faculty to discuss topics related to our research, teaching, and intellectual lives. In Spring 2025, WAE Director Vani Kannan ran an ALC focused on multimodal and multigenre pedagogies. The ALC met monthly in January, February, March, and April 2025 for two-hour sessions.
With the shift from writing- to communication-intensive courses, faculty at Emory have developed innovative multimodal and multigenre approaches to teaching and learning. This ALC aims to ground these new approaches in place/land-based, anti-racist, decolonial understandings of communication and education. Participants were invited to workshop their class activities, assignments, and/or syllabi; critically reflect on their own writing and communication practices; and engage in hands-on multimodal activities. Participants were invited to apply for modest stipends for pedagogical materials; join a Writing Across Emory advisory committee; and present at a public-facing campus event during the 2025-26 academic year.
Session 1, Rooting in Land/Place: Emory, Atlanta, and the Southeast welcomed guest speaker Dr. Ben Miller, Teaching Professor and former Executive Editor of Atlanta Studies.
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Session 2, Embodied & Digital Inquiry: Field Notes, Collective Slideshows, and Infographics featured Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels, Assistant Professor of African American Studies.
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Session 3, Archives, Zines, and Project/Syllabus Redesign featured Dr. Marina Magloire, Assistant Professor of English.
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Session 4, Multimodal & Multilingual Reflection: Revisioning through Collage, included zine pedagogy presentations by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies PhD student Shromona Mandal and undergraduate English major / RWID minor Delaney Yocom.
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