Old Dominion University
At Old Dominion University I teach in the Media & Technology and Literature & Culture emphases of the PhD and MA programs. I also teach beginning and advanced courses for undergraduates.
Graduate Courses
Spring 2020 ENGL701/801: Text Technologies
Fall 2019 ENLG 463/563 Women Writers
Spring 2019 ENGL 730/830: Critical Analysis Through Modeling and Prototyping
Fall 2018 ENGL 461/561: Early Twentieth Century Poetry
Spring 2018 ENGL 701/801: Text Technologies
Fall 2017 ENGL 7/891: Dark Ecology & Reinvention: Eco-narratives of Disaster
Spring 2017 ENGL 730/830 Digital Humanities: Technologies of the Book
Undergraduate Courses
Fall 2019 ENGL 114L: American Writers, American Experiences
Fall 2019 ENLG 346: Survey of American Literature
Spring 2019 ENGL 346: Survey of American Literature
Fall 2018 ENGL 346: Survey of American Literature
Fall 2017 ENGL 349: Contemporary Environmental Apocalypse Novels
Spring 2017 ENGL 346: American Modes: Survey of American Lit 1860-Present
Fall 2016 ENGL 346: American Open: Surveying American Lit 1860-Present
Fall 2016 ENGL 112: Introduction to Literature
New College of Florida
As a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Literature (poetry) I taught both introductory and upper level undergraduate courses, supervised senior theses, independent study projects and small group ISPs. You can see a snippet video of me from 2015 introducing students to the course topics in “Technologies of the Book” here in this video.
Spring 2016 Dark Ecology & the Reinvention of the Human: Eco-Narratives of Disaster
Spring 2016 Victorian Poetry
Fall 2015 Technologies of the Book
Fall 2015 Exploring Poetry
Spring 2015 The Long Poem: Victorian to Contemporary Feminist Poetics
Spring 2015 Transatlantic Avant-Garde Modernisms
Fall 2014 Literature and the Environment: Epistemologies of Nature from Wilderness Ideology to Blue Ecology
Fall 2014 Introduction to Poetry
Georgia Institute of Technology
As a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, I taught courses in the Writing and Communication Program that employed digital pedagogy methods. I continued my civic engagement work with a food studies-oriented composition and communication course at Georgia Tech. For this course I led students into the Atlanta community to learn about food security, neighborhood cultures, and local gardening initiatives.
Spring 2014 ENGL 1102, Writing & Comm. Program: Gender and Narrative
Fall 2013 LMC 2200, School of Lit, Media & Comm: Intro to Gender Studies
Fall 2013 ENGL 1101, Writing & Comm. Program: Global & Local Foodways
Spring 2013 ENGL 1102, Writing & Comm. Program: Modernism & Landscape
Fall 2012 ENGL 1101, Writing & Comm. Program: Atlanta Food Systems
University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo)
While a PhD student in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo I developed a love of teaching as a creative and critical complement to research. I began teaching since 2005, first with composition courses and later in literature and a variety of other contexts.
From 2008 to 2012 I worked as a poet in the Buffalo schools, serving as a writer-in-residence for Writing with Light, the joint education program of CEPA Gallery and Just Buffalo Literary Center. Traveling across Western New York, leading writing workshops in K-12 schools, I worked with hundreds of children and their teachers from grades three through ten in schools widely different from one another. The Cattaraugus Little Valley School, a K-12 school found along a country highway that twists along a steep grade and plunges through the ash forests and shale-topped mountains of the Southern Tier, is different in its needs from a public high school in downtown Buffalo. In the country, students dream of cities and, in the city, students dream of open fields.
From 2010-2012 I also worked as a Teaching Assistant for a social justice living learning community. Part of my work involved linking our program with other programs across the university and in the city. This included Healthy Kids/Healthy Communities, Buffalo/Niagara Riverkeepers, Poverty Research Council, the Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP), the UB Honors College, and UB Civic Engagement and Public Policy Center. My student group elected to gather survey data on the food security of Buffalo’s Westside immigrant neighborhoods. I have fond memories of standing a half a foot down in freshly-overturned earth alongside my students as the Lead Gardener at Massachusetts Avenue Project explained the finer points of earth worm cultivation.
Spring 2012 UE 135 Civic Engagement, Undergraduate Academies
Fall 2011 UE 140 Introductory Seminar for the Undergraduate Academies
Spring 2011 UE 135 Civic Engagement, Undergraduate Academies
Fall 2010 UE 130 Introductory Seminar for the Undergraduate Academies
Spring 2010 ENG 263 Literature (Environmental Writing): Reinventing Nature
Fall 2009 ENG 201 Advanced Writing: Cultural Mythologies
Spring 2009 ENG 102 Writing 2: Representing Buffalo
Fall 2008 ENG 201 Advanced Writing: Utopian Communities
Spring 2008 ENG 101 Writing 1: Writing About Home
Fall 2007 ENG 102 Writing 2: Cultures of Consumption
Spring 2007 ENG 102 Writing 2: Popular Culture
Fall 2006 ENG 102 Writing 2: Decoding Advertisements
Spring 2006 ENG 201 Advanced Writing: The City
Fall 2005 ENG 101 Writing 1: Rereading America
CREATIVE WRITING TEACHING
WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE
Just Buffalo Literary Center 2008-2012
Charter School for the Applied Technologies “Change” (2 months)
Medaille College “Environmental Entrepreneurs for the Olmsted Parks” (1 week)
CEPA Photography Center Summer Camp (1 week)
Charter School for the Applied Technologies “Transformation” (2 months)
Parkside Summer Camp (3 weeks)
Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart “Writing a Serial Poem” (1 week)
Discovery Elementary School “Discovering a Green World” (2 months)
Akron Elementary School “The Five Senses” (1 week)
Cattaraugus-Little Valley Central School “Arts Week” (1 day)
South Park High School “Poetry, line-by-line” (1 week)