Dr. Halliday believes that teaching is an opportunity to embrace new ideas, create innovative assignments, and challenge students and herself. As a person, scholar, and teacher, she is constantly learning, growing, and finding new ways to reach and teach students from all walks of life. Learning should be a liberatory experience for both teacher and student; both her and my students have much to learn about each other and the changing world around us. Liberation of students’ ideas and overall consciousness of self is key to her personal pedagogy.  She is primarily interested in students’ freedom, which she believes she can actualize by providing a safe space within which to talk and think about ideas.

Dr. Halliday aims to encourage students’ to challenge their own conceptions of how the world works as well as what others’ have told them about what they should believe. By incorporating black feminist theory and pedagogy as well as her interests in poetry, performance, literature, and critical engagement with popular culture in the classroom, she emboldens students to take their education into their own hands and create meaning for themselves. The ability to reform ideas, rethink assumptions, and reinvigorate belief in their own abilities, she believes, affords students the critical thinking, writing, and readings skills that our nation and world need.  

Teaching is an opportunity 
to embrace new ideas, 
create innovative assignments, 
and challenge myself 
& my students. 

​​-Dr. Halliday