Teaching
My teaching interests include American and British literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present, transnational literature, poetry and poetics, composition, and the digital humanities.
I want students to enjoy my courses. By this I mean that I want them to think critically about texts, to find language exciting, and to find creativity inspiring. I design courses that enable students' engagement with literary, historical, and cultural contexts, so that the experience is one of immersion. My students become more creative thinkers and risk takers who are able to clearly articulate their ideas.
I want students to enjoy my courses. By this I mean that I want them to think critically about texts, to find language exciting, and to find creativity inspiring. I design courses that enable students' engagement with literary, historical, and cultural contexts, so that the experience is one of immersion. My students become more creative thinkers and risk takers who are able to clearly articulate their ideas.
I have taught or will soon be teaching the following courses:
New York Institute of Technology 2015-Present
Literature
ICLT 331: Women, Technology, and Art. Fall 2020-2018 (hybrid/blended), Summer 2019, 2018 (online), Fall 2017 (in person as ICLT 300). This course takes the nature of experiment as its subject, considering the art of the novel, poetic form, science fiction, visual art, and graphic narratives.
ICLT 330: Global Literature and Digital Media. Spring 2021 online, Spring 2020-2018 (hybrid/blended), Fall 2016 (in person as ICLT 300).
With technology as a focus, this course interprets the ways that global writers and artists approach such topics as identity, gender, war, the city, comics, and popular culture.
ICLT 311: Modernism: Lit and Culture Early Twentieth Century: “Global Digital Modernisms.” Spring 2017, Spring 2016. Course addressing the global dimensions of literature and culture during the first half of the twentieth century.
Composition
FCWR 101: Foundations of College Composition: “College in the Digital World.” Fall 2019-2017.
Analyzing representations of college life in nonfiction, fiction, film, and other forms of media.
FCWR 151: Writing II: Foundations of Research Writing: “Writing New York.” Spring 2021 online, Spring 2020-2016 in person/shift to online (2020).
Course analyzing literature and art of New York City, focusing on the early twentieth century.
FCWR 101: Writing I: Foundations of College Composition: “Apple and Microsoft: 1975 to the Present.” Fall 2016, Fall 2015-2 sections. Writing course examining such topics as hardware, software, aesthetics, narrative, innovation, competition, and global marketing.
FCWR 151: Writing II: Foundations of Research Writing: “Writing Long Island.” Fall 2015. Course addressing suburban culture from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century
Georgia Tech 2012-2015
English 1102: “Victorian Technology and Art.” Spring 2015. Three sections of course examining technology, the arts, and literary expression in nineteenth century England and the British Empire. We will also consider the changing role of the city, the landscape, the gothic, industrialization, print culture, film adaptations, and digital archives.
English 1102: "Global Digital Modernisms." Fall 2014. Three sections of course addressing the global dimensions of literature and culture during the first half of the twentieth century.
English 1102: “African American Literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the Digital Present.” Spring 2014. Three sections of course addressing twentieth and twenty-first century African American literature, concluding with contemporary Atlanta writers. In their projects, the students investigated and created digital resources for literary, cultural, and historical research.
English 1102: “Digital Woolf.” Fall 2013. Three sections of course addressing Virginia Woolf's fiction, essays, journals, and correspondence alongside the literature and art of the Bloomsbury Group. We considered such topics as the city, fashion, technology, transportation, Woolf's twenty-first century digital presence, and film adaptations of her novels. The students wrote essays, contributed to a class blog, gave research presentations, and created digital projects.
English 1102: “Modernism: Technology and Communication.” Spring 2013. Three sections of course analyzing forms of written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal communication in late nineteenth to early twentieth century British, American, and Anglophone literature. This course considered the impact of changes in transportation, cities, media, telephones, telegraphs, war, and the British Empire.
English 1101: “Apple and Microsoft: 1975 to the Present.” Fall 2012. Three sections of multimodal WOVEN (Written, Oral, Visual, Electronic, and Nonverbal) communication course.
Agnes Scott College 2012
English 110: The Craft of Writing: “Writing and the Women’s College.” Spring 2012. Writing course addressing mid-nineteenth to twenty-first century literature by women’s college alumnae.
Emory University 2010-2011
English 101: Expository Writing: “Advertising and Consumer Culture.” Fall 2011. Two sections of course analyzing literature, history, and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present.
American Studies 385: “Midcentury Poetics.” Spring 2011. Cross-listed as English 389 and Women’s Studies 385. Course in American poetry and culture from 1945 to 1970 addressing gender, race, confession, urbanity, the everyday, the visual arts, and textual culture.
University of Washington 2004-2010
Literature
English 440: “Post-1945 American Poetry.” Summer 2010.
English 338: Modern Poetry: “Anglo-American Poetry, 1890-1945.” Spring 2010.
English 337: The Modern Novel: “British Fiction: 1900-1939.” Winter 2010.
English 243: Reading Poetry: “American Poetry: 1860-1960.” Winter 2010.
English 200: “British Modernism and the Creative Process.” Spring 2007.
English 243: “American Poetry and the Archive.” Winter 2007. Nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and poetics.
English 200: “Modernism and Material Culture: The Changing Texture of Literature.” Fall 2006.
Composition
English 197: Writing in the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Writing Program. Spring 2008-Spring 2009 and Fall 2007. Writing course accompanying required lecture course for majors, English 202: Introduction to English Language and Literature.
English 131: Composition: Exposition. Summer 2008 and Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
English 111: Composition: Literature: “The Scandalous Fifties” (Winter 2008) and “The Fifties: Domesticity and History” (Fall 2005-Spring 2006).
Essay Writing. The Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. University of Washington. Summers 2005-2007. Three courses for advanced high school students in writing narrative and analytical essays in response to fiction, poetry, and prose.
My Digital Woolf students at Georgia Tech having a fishbowl discussion of Mrs. Dalloway using the website TodaysMeet.