Academic Learning Communities

Explore the upcoming Academic Learning Communities for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027. More information about these ALCs will be posted soon.

Academic Learning Communities are informal seminars that are intended to

• engage faculty, graduate students, post docs, and staff in collaborative explorations of innovative research and teaching topics;
• bring guest speakers to campus to enhance the curriculum and learning; and/or
• help disseminate important research discoveries and innovative learning strategies to the broader community.

 Pedagogy Reading Circle: Call for Participants

PRC: "Theoretical Foundations of Multimodal & Multigenre Pedagogy," Fall 2026

This PRC is a follow-up to Writing Across Emory's 2025 Academic Learning Community on multimodal and multigenre pedagogies. The ALC offered us a change to develop practical strategies for low- and high-stakes multimodal assignments. This PRC offers us a chance to do a deeper dive into the theoretical foundations of these pedagogical approaches. Participants will read and discuss texts in writing studies, educational theory, and public rhetorics, and reflect on their own writing and knowledge-making practices. 

Reading Circles at the CFDE are designed to promote conversations on campus about teaching and encourage connection with colleagues across disciplines and departments. 

Faculty, postdoctoal fellows, and graduate student instructors / teaching assistants from all disciplines and career stages are encouraged to apply!

Click here to register by September 14, 2026.

Academic Learning Communities: Calls for Participants

ALC: "Reimagined Teaching with Care," Fall 2026, Convener: Andrea Fitzroy, Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory College

This ALC invites educators to reorient our teaching practices through engagement of an ethics of care, emphasizing reconnection with what originally drew many of us to teaching: the joy of learning and the radical, transformative potential of education. 

Over five sessions, community members with collaboratively explore care ethics in theory and practice. We will begin with an overview of care ethics, including feminist, pluralist, queer, trans and intersectional perspectives, to establish a shared language and understanding across our learning community. Together we will review scheduled topics to identify any wants or needs, with flexibility to adjust. Our final session will center supporting community members in translating care ethics into actual, context-specific teaching practices to be shared across programs, disciplines, schools, and the university. As a collaborative learning community, we aim to cultivate more caring, reflective, and justice-oriented approaches to teaching. 

Click here to register by August 21, 2026.

ALC: "Get Outside!" Fall 2026, Conveners: Lydia Fort, Associate Professor, Theater Studies, Anthony Martin, Professor of Practice, Environmental Sciences, and Melissa T. Yang, Associate Teaching Professor, English/Writing Program

The "Get Outside!" ALC, developed in partnership with Writing Across Emory (WAE), invites instructors to take their teaching outdoors. We will engage with Emory's woods, creeks, gardens, and green spaces to observe multisensory and multispecies interactions. Participants will be introduced to a range of approaches, including guided observation, reflective and descriptive writing, and contemplative practices that cultivate attentive presence and relational ways of knowing. Re/discover your personal relationship with the natural world, learn about local ecologies, and create webs of interbeing. Together, we will practice being in relationship with the natural world and weaving these embodied entanglements into our academic and pedagogical lives. 

Click here to register by August 31, 2026.

Previous Academic Learning Communities

Archived descriptions of Previous Academic Learning Communities between 2012 and 2025 are available for review.