Emily enjoys working with a diverse range of undergraduate and graduate students. Her educational background specializes in English Literature (PhD, University of Victoria) and Creative Writing (MA, University of Toronto). Emily worked as a Student Academic Advisor in Scotland providing students placed on academic probation with strategies aimed at enhancing student success. Emily has both taught and assisted in the UVic English department (ENG 135, 147) and has worked as a Learning Strategist for the Centre for Accessible Learning. Her teaching practice centres on strength-based and self-regulated approaches to learning: helping students draw on their own strengths to excel in their upcoming academic presentations, papers, and assignments. 

Brodie grew up in Ottawa, or the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg people. As a certified teacher, he has worked with young people and families in a wide variety of contexts including outdoor experiential education, school-based support, substance use counselling, and inpatient mental health. If he is not working or studying, you can find him playing disc golf, and mostly likely, contemplating how he can apply SRL theory to improve his game (much to the chagrin of his disc golf partner!).