Emily Wilkinson is an educator specializing in autoethnography and emotion. They are a recent graduate of Columbia University’s PhD program in English Ed., where they studied the intersections of emotions, dialogical pedagogy, conservatism, and queerness in a rural middle school classroom. They currently teach social studies in Northern California, USA, is Teacher Consultant with the Bay Area Writing Project, and serves as the secretary of the Genders and Sexualities Equality Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English.