Teaching

I currently teach the following courses

LIT 500 - Literary Theory

Southern New Hampshire University

This course is an introduction to the major schools of contemporary literary theory, and an examination of principal exponents of these theories.  This course also teaches essential graduate level skills such as developing an annotated bibliography, conducting scholarly research, and joining the academic conversation. 

I designed the new version of this course for Southern New Hampshire University in 2023, and enrollment across all sections of my design is approximately 600 graduate students per year.

LIT 503 - Topics in British Literature

Southern New Hampshire University

This course examines major prose and poetry of English writers from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Twentieth Century. Readings may include classics by Chaucer, Spencer, Milton, Shakespeare, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Eliot, Bronte, Browning, Hardy, Woolf, Barnes, Barry, and Melville among others.

LIT 509 - Romantic Literature

Southern New Hampshire University

This course examines the Romantic Era. Students read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction responding to shaping events such as the French Revolution and its aftermath, the British abolition of slavery, and industrialization. Authors include Wordsworth, Keats, Austen, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and Byron.

LIT 690 - MA in English Capstone

Southern New Hampshire University

Students register for this course in their final term, as a culmination of their work in the program. They satisfy the requirement by completing a thesis, submitting a portfolio of their literary-critical writing along with a retrospective evaluative essay, or passing an examination on English and American literature.

LT 199 - Dutch I, II, III

University of Oregon

First year Dutch language course taught through the Yamada Language Center's program for less commonly taught languages.

Past Courses

Indiana University

• CMLT 151 - Pop Culture: Living in a Material World

• CMLT 155 - Special Topics: No Rest for the Wicked: Guilt and Trauma in Western Literature

• CMLT 252 - Literary and Television Genres

• CLLC 210 - Special Topics: Let Them Eat Brains : The Identity Politics of Cannibalism in Literature and Film

Southern New Hampshire University

• LIT 100 - Introduction to Literature

• LIT 201 - World Literature I

• LIT 202 - World Literature II

• LIT 300 - Literary Theory

• LIT 322 - Popular and Contemporary American Fiction

• LIT 450 - Senior Seminar in American Literature

• LIT 451 - Senior Seminar in British Literature

University of Oregon

• GER 101, 102, 103

• GER 199 - Conversational German