Teaching
As much as the role of an instructor is to map lessons to outcomes, design assessment, and generally structure a course, my goal when teaching is to keep students engaged. All of my classes feature discussion and substantial feedback, with components tuned for each course: individual student conferences, peer reviews, and sharing works in progress. I keep students further engaged by augmenting traditional approaches with newer digital methods. Among other things, we’ve evaluated visualizations of texts modeled with sentiment analysis, built online timelines of South Asian literary history, mapped Huckleberry Finn using Google Maps and Flickr, experimented with grammar interactively using Twinery, curated collaborative online video editions of William Strunk’s Elements of Style, and explored Romantic poetry with Voyant.
Courses
- Grambling State University
- Introduction to Big Data
- Introduction to Data Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Digital Methods of Literary Text Mining
- Freshman Composition I
- Freshman Composition II
- Advanced Composition
- Advanced Traditional Grammar
- World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
- World Literature II: 1650 to present
- Race, Representation, and the American Dream: 1860 to present
- Intro. to British Literature II: 1798 to present
- History and Survey of British Literature II
- Major Literary Figures: Virginia Woolf
- Comparative Literature: English Literature in/of South Asia
- Spectral Textuality: The Gothic Tradition ~capstone
- (Hurry Up, Please, It’s) Time in Modernist British Literature ~capstone
- Louisiana State University in Shreveport
- Modern Drama
- Modern Fiction
- The University of Edinburgh
- Literature: Forms and Practices
- Literature and the Literary: English Literature c. 1300 to 1700
- The Individual in the World: British Literature c. 1700 to 1850
- Writing and Revolution: English Literature c. 1760 to 1830
- The World in the Individual: British Literature c. 1850 to 1950
- Revolution in Writing: English Literature c. 1890 to 1939
- Scottish Universities International Summer School
- Text and Context: British and Irish Modernism