Rate My Professor Emily Harbin

Emily Harbin serves as a professor in the English department at Cornell College. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in nineteenth and twentieth-century British Literature from Vanderbilt University, where she completed her dissertation titled 'Transforming the Race-Mother: Motherhood and Eugenics in British Modernism' in 2008. This work examines motherhood and eugenics within British modernist literature. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Converse College in 1999. Harbin's academic career includes positions such as lecturer in English at Wofford College in Fall 2010, and roles at Converse University where she advanced from assistant professor and director of the Writing Center to associate professor, receiving tenure and promotion in 2022, and serving as Chair of the Department of English.

Her teaching portfolio covers British literature spanning the Romantics to the Modernists, literary criticism, composition, and literary dystopias. Research specializations encompass popular culture, Writing Center theory, labor conditions, and currently focus on New Women writers and the male writers they engage with. Key publications include the article 'Diametrically Opposite Views: Reconciling the Influences of Josephine Butler and Francis Paget on the Anglican Contagious Diseases Acts Repeal Campaign' published in the Victorians Institute Journal in 2022. She has contributed to scholarly discourse through conference presentations, such as 'Writing the Eugenic Romance: Emma Brooke, Menie Muriel Dowie, and Eugenic Motherhood' at the Victorians Institute. Harbin's leadership in writing centers and departmental administration highlights her impact on pedagogy and academic community building. Her work bridges literary analysis with contemporary theoretical concerns in gender, eugenics, and social reform in Victorian and modernist contexts.