Teaching Experience

I’ve taught undergraduate and graduate classes in English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Hampden-Sydney College, St. Norbert College, and the University of Montana Western. My semesters often included the introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies; British literature surveys; seminars on the novel, literary theory, or queer literature; and first-year seminars for non-majors. One of my joys in all these courses has designing assessments that allow students to practice thinking and writing about literature in a variety of modes. Recently, my students have taken collaborative exams, designed public history exhibits, created zines, adapted a course text by changing key narrative features, and designed audience education materials for a hypothetical production of a stage play.

I have been gratified to receive the Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award and the David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition.

Courses Taught

• University of Montana Western

  • Literature 494: Senior Capstone: Empire and Intrigue in the 19th Century British Novel

  • Literature 300: Literary Criticism

  • Writing 101: College Writing

• St. Norbert College

  • WMGS 110: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies

  • English 150: Unlivable Worlds

  • English/WMGS 206: Queer Literature

  • English 226: British Literature II

  • English 305: Literary Theory and Writing

  • English 358: Nineteenth-Century English Novel

  • English 489: Capstone Seminar (Jane Austen and Her Afterlives)

  • Liberal Studies 589: Shakespeare

• Hampden-Sydney College

  • Rhetoric 101: Practices and Principles of Writing

  • English 185: Stranger Things: Monsters in Literature and Film

  • English 211: The History of English Literature I

  • English 242: Introduction to Dramatic Literature

  • English 304: Victorian Literature

  • English 317: Rise of the Novel

  • English 334: Shakespeare

  • English 389: Literary Theory

  • English 480: Capstone Seminar (Ecocide and Utopia)

• University of Michigan

  • English 125: College Writing

  • English 298: Introduction to Literature

  • English/Women’s Studies 315: Women’s Theatre Writing

• Eastern Michigan University

  • Literature 575: Victorian Literature

Teaching Materials

Guide to Inclusive Teaching: This collaborative resource was developed by facilitators in the Inclusive Teaching Network, in consultation with University of Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching.

Accessibility Statement: I’ve developed this accessibility statement with input from colleagues in the Inclusive Teaching Network. I place this statement on all my course syllabi (right beneath the course description) to signal to students my intention to make access a key goal for the course.

Self-Assessment in Participation: This is a mid-semester and end-of-semester tool that I’ve created to gather feedback from students while also encouraging them to reflect on obstacles, strategies, and goals in course engagement.