Colleges and Areas
- Humanities
- Undergraduate Education
- General Education
- Honors Program
Career
Julie Swallow has worked in higher education since 1992. She has taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Minnesota, specializing in writing, literature, and folklore studies. She also spent a year in Dunkirk, France, where she taught English at a local high school as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant.
At BYU’s Salt Lake Center, she served for five years as Undergraduate Program Administrator, mentoring more than 90 adjunct faculty members. Since 2021, Julie has worked at the Center for Teaching and Learning, where she focuses on classroom belonging, inquiry-guided pedagogy, and character and virtue education. Most recently, she collaborated with colleagues in BYU’s English department to publish a book examining stories of encounters with the Three Nephites from an academic perspective.
Research Interests
- Inquiry-guided Learning
- Virtue and Character Education
- Engaging Learning
- Creating Classrooms of Belonging
Education
- M.A. English, Brigham Young University
- B.A. Liberal Arts and Sciences, Utah State University