Teaching
Across classes, my pedagogy focuses on exploring how literary studies can help us more ethically engage with the relationships between identity, power, and representation. My classes have ranged from introductory courses to the English major to graduate classes on race in Renaissance drama. I am especially excited when I have the opportunity to teach classes that make connections between early modern drama and contemporary culture and theoretically-oriented courses focused on gender and race.
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Fantasies of Race in Renaissance England
An introduction to Premodern Critical Race studies that takes an historicist approach to analyze the various ways race was constructed, performed, and written about in early modern England.
Gender Studies and Literature
Takes a broad , introductory approach to this vast field, drawing from prominent scholars in women’s studies, Black feminist studies, masculinity studies, queer theory, and trans studies and applying their key frameworks and concepts to a range of literary texts across genres.
Global Literatures
Examines postcolonial authors and theory, with a particular focus on works from the Caribbean, East Africa, India, and Latin America.
Literature to 1600
A survey of medieval and Renaissance literature, with organizing themes such as “Self and Other” and “Power in the Literary Imagination”
Shakespeare, Race, and Adaptation
Explores Shakespeare’s afterlives in graphic novels, stage performances, film, and more to consider Shakespeare’s role in modern America’s racial formation.
Studies in Literature: Unruly Women in Literature
A course designed for general education students that explores women who push on, bend, and break societal norms in a variety literary genres from a range of historical eras.
Western Heritage 105/106
Philosophy, history, and fine arts come together in this year-long, co-taught interdisciplinary course that traces, questions, and critiques Western socio-cultural traditions.
