Faculty Consultant
Teresa Marie Hooper, Ph. D., focuses on helping faculty develop welcoming, accessible, and engaging classroom spaces that foster student wellbeing. Her main area of expertise is course design for disability and neurodiversity inclusion, academic integrity, and civic engagement.
As a faculty consultant, Teresa is especially interested in developing future faculty, and she supports graduate students’ growth into thoughtful and highly trained educators in their fields. She also assists faculty in producing scholarships in teaching and learning (SoTL).
Teresa earned her doctorate at UT in 2016, with a certificate in Medieval Studies from the Marco Institute. As a scholar, she studies Old English codicology; as an instructor, she taught rhetoric, civic dialogue, and academic research methods in composition and literature courses in the southeast US for over fifteen years. She also holds an M. A. and B. A. in English from the College of Charleston.