About my teaching:
My teaching centers on rigorous questioning: I believe that literary texts are sites for inquiry, offering opportunities for us to challenge our thinking through the exchange of ideas. ​My goal as a teacher is to equip students to explore and answer their own uncertainties and communicate what stimulates their curiosity.

The approach I apply to my research—my attention to formal play in specific social and political contexts—is central to what I bring to the classroom. My courses encourage close reading and analysis that considers context. If you visit my classroom, you'll see a mix of discussion and conversation augmented by brief lectures and student-led research to facilitate a lively exchange of ideas. In addition, many of the classes I teach feature activities inviting students to experience literature as a craft, creative opportunities that respond to our readings and testing out techniques and ideas as we learn about them.

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Courses I Teach

Willamette University

• English 116W: American Protest Literature (W = writing-centered course) - Fall 2017 Syllabus

University of Oregon

Independent Instructor

• English 104, Introduction to Fiction: Belonging in American Literature - Fall 2015, Fall 2016 - Fall 2016 Syllabus
• English 200, Public Speaking as a Liberal Art - Winter 2018 - Winter 2018 Syllabus
• Writing 121 and 122, College Composition I and II - Fall 2012, Winter 2013, Spring 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2017 - Winter 2018 Syllabus
• Writing 123, College Composition III - Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, and Winter 2016 -  Winter 2016 Syllabus

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​Discussion Leader/Teaching Assistant

• English 106, Introduction to Poetry - Winter, 2012
• English 221, Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literatures, Wyatt and Surrey to Benjamin Franklin - Winter 2015 
• English 222, Introduction to the English Major: British and American Literatures, 1789 to Present - Spring 2015
• English 303, Introduction to the English Major: Close Reading - Spring 2017