Teaching

I teach courses in literature, composition, linguistics, and digital editing, with a focus on rhetorical analysis, textual history, and pedagogical clarity. My approach blends close reading with collaborative writing, archival engagement, and digital literacy.

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Freshman Composition — Critical writing, revision pedagogy, and rhetorical modes including argument, definition, cause/effect, and exemplification.
Early British Literature — Survey course exploring texts from the medieval through neoclassical periods, emphasizing historical context, cultural continuity, and the relevance of these works to contemporary questions of power, identity, and belief.
Early American Literature — Survey course organized around the question “What is America?”, ranging from Indigenous oral traditions to the 1850s.
Shakespeare's Drama — Study of four major plays (Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Henry IV Part One, and King Lear) with an emphasis on performance-based analysis and group scene work as a method of literary engagement.
Grammar & Linguistics — Introduction to phonology, morphology, and syntax using Essentials of Linguistics (Anderson).
World Mythology — Comparative readings from global creation stories and epics, emphasizing myth as cultural memory and transmission.

Teaching Strengths

Integrating literary analysis with historical and rhetorical context.
Designing multimodal and collaborative assignments.
Building classroom discussion around critical questions and close textual work.
Incorporating digital tools (GitHub, TEI, Netlify) into student projects.

Workshops in Development

Writing 101 Bootcamp — A short-format workshop, taught cooperatively, introducing foundational writing strategies, argument structure, and revision techniques for undergraduate students across disciplines.
TEI Encoding for Digital Scholarship — A multi-phase workshop designed to train student contributors in the editorial and technical practices of TEI-XML encoding for the Early Modern Letters project, with a focus on Chamberlain’s correspondence and digital annotation methods.