teaching

Young Adult & Children’s Literature

An upper-division English major course designed to theorize the genre of kidlit and analyze narrative structures.

Introduction to Critical Reading and Writing

Prerequisite college course for the English major. Sole instructor of seminars on Gothic Literature, Monsters in Literature, and Heroes & Villains.

ESL: Preparation for American University

Designed for incoming undergraduate and graduate students to prepare English language skills for American universities.

English Literatures 1700-1850

Teaching Fellow for survey English major course. Texts included: Pope, Swift, Equiano, Wheatley Peters, Shelley, Clare, De Quincey.

AP English Language & Composition: New Media as Narrative

For 11th-graders to investigate how literature addresses technological advancements and how tech changes what we understand to be literature.

Techno-Orientalism: from Frankenstein to K-pop

Upper-division Humanities course designed to explore the problematic of techno-Orientalism across time and media.

Survey of Literatures in English (1660-1830)

Lower-division English literature survey course for majors and non-majors, themed around the Enlightenment (and anti-Enlightenment narratives).

upcoming: The Gothic (Race & Empire)

AP English Language & Composition: Defining America

For 11th-graders to investigate how literature addresses and critiques the idea of “being American.” Rhetorical analysis and close reading emphasized.

The British Novel (1770 – 1830): Race, Regency, and Revolution

Upper-division course designed for majors to delve more deeply into the Regency Era.

The Queer Eighteenth Century

Graduate-level seminar on eighteenth century literature, queer studies, and adaptation.

upcoming: YA Literature