I find joy in teaching and entangle my research and pedagogical aims as I design courses that invite students to question how embodied experience shapes individual and collective identities. As an undergraduate at Rice University, my professors in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality transformed my academic trajectory and set a model for pedagogical rigor and care that I continue to try and emulate. I credit them and my subsequent interdisciplinary doctoral training with emphasizing a feminist, anti-racist pedagogical practice and making me a versatile and responsive teacher. I select readings, foster discussions and assign writing assignments with the aim of helping my students develop their own awareness of their positionality (and privilege) vis-à-vis gender, race, class, and disability. I enjoy mentoring and working with students to achieve their aims and I take an interest in the whole student because I believe that strengthens my ability to teach them; it also brings the joy of learning of their successes and growth outside of my classroom. My students have responded favorably to this approach, and I have received and been nominated for teaching awards at both Penn State and the University of Delaware.
I am a well-seasoned instructor of first-year writing and composition, with additional experience teaching Honors courses at both Penn State and the University of Delaware. I have also taught upper-level composition courses in Business and Technical Writing, introductory courses in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and courses in American Studies. Courses taught in my area of research include "Sports, Ethics and Literature," "American Disillusion: Fairness, Equity and Ethics in Sports," and "London's Ley Lines: Magic, Mysticism and the Occult in Modernist Literature," a study abroad course in London, England. Please contact me for full syllabi.