Emma Hughes

Emma Hughes is a senior living in Dunster House, originally from Phillipston, Massachusetts. She is a concentrator in English with a secondary in Educational Studies. Emma is interested in the relationship between education and schooling, interrogating how current classroom practices can be best adapted in order to prioritize a humanistic and cultivated education for each individual learner. She is excited to pursue being a high school teacher after graduating from Harvard. Her favorite courses on education were The Philosophy of Education at HGSE and her junior tutorial in English, which focused on representations of artificial intelligence in literature. She wrote her capstone research project on the intersection between power, humanistic education, and language development depicted in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. Outside of school, Emma enjoys reading (for fun!) and playing the guitar.