Biography
Rachel Xhemajli teaches courses in British literature, world literature, women’s literature, and critical analysis at Alvernia University. Her classes emphasize critical thinking, creativity, and real-world relevance, and her interdisciplinary background informs her belief that students should bring both their developing expertise and lived experience to everything they read and write. She has taught in a wide range of settings: college classrooms, graduate seminars, community programs, and alternative education programs, which both challenge and inspire her to adapt to student needs.Outside of academia, she has built a career as a writer, editor, and content director, and she continues to draw on that experience to help students strengthen their writing and persuasive power. Her work has appeared in both academic and creative publications, and she regularly presents at national and international conferences. Her research reaches both backward and forward: at the University of Oxford, she focuses on novels of the long eighteenth century and their influence on political and religious thought, and more recently, she has been studying how classic literature continues to shape thought, identity, and public discourse in a digital age.