Create and Sustain Belonging in Your Classroom

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Early classroom activities are often designed to promote belonging, but how do we keep that feeling from fading as the semester rolls on? Join UMass grad student Christina Muoio for an interdisciplinary session on actionable strategies for embedding community-building routines regularly into your teaching.

Part of the Teaching Academy, a series of pedagogical workshops for ALL UMass grad students and postdocs!

Register here!

Christina Muoio (she/her) is a doctoral student in Literature in the Early Modern and Renaissance Studies track and holds a graduate certificate in WGSS at UMass. 

She is passionate about undergraduate teaching and has extensive experience in both the Writing Program and English Department, including teaching assistant work for the undergraduate Shakespeare lecture and serving as Graduate Assistant Director in the Writing Program. She has also taught a First-Year Seminar on queer theory and Twelfth Night, and designed and taught an early modern-themed section of English 132: Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture. Her pedagogy emphasizes inclusive, discussion-based classrooms that support student confidence, critical thinking, and engagement with literature and history.

Christina is a REAL Fellow and currently serves as EGO Co-Chair. Her research focuses on mixed-race studies and the exclusion of mixed-race characters from the early modern literary canon, along with interests in queer theory, gendered epistemologies, and interracial relationships in early modern drama.