Teaching

I have over seven years experience teaching undergraduates in composition, literature, and history. A significant portion of this time has been spent working with non-traditional and culturally diverse student populations. Additionally, I have spent five years mentoring students in professional writing and development.

I believe that my role as an instructor is to facilitate deep and meaningful discussions with students about the connections between texts, themselves, and their communities. Whether teaching historical literature, contemporary literature, or composition, I employ the tools of literary analysis in order to help students carefully and critically analyze the underlying relationships and discourses that tie together the past and the present, people and places, systems and individuals. By enhancing my students’ understanding of literature I challenge them to think critically about the situated nature of texts. This helps them better understand the ways that they are shaped by dialogue and enables them to recognize the imaginative possibilities offered by narrative.

Below are some of the organizations I've been involved with as an instructor and mentor. For a full list of courses taught and course descriptions, please see my cv here.