courses
past & present
Intro to african-american literature (2020-PRESENT)
Organized through the past/present/future that follows (haunts?) AA Lit regardless of when it was written, the class reads and writes pursuant to the theme while mostly engaging with contemporary work: students refract the past through analysis & historical fiction, account for the present in creative response & poetry, and reach for the future with researched criticism & afrofuturism. Students bring themselves into the classroom by proposing supplemental readings & “questions of the day.”
Intermediate Composition (2018-present)
With a curriculum focused on transfer of writing skills to student-specific discourse communities for their majors/careers, my int. comp. classes are centered on repeating modules which bring every student’s voice into the conversation. Most notably, each student must present one “daily rant” (exploring a concern they have with their field) and one “the more you know” (exploring a ‘boring’ niche of their field) during the semester, meant to expand the way we relate to community-specific writing.
Intro to creative writing (2017)
Taught at Miami University, my creative writing classes were organized around student facilitation of challenging prompts to build a community of writers who approached cw and community as exploration and work. An experience that became the springboard for my master’s thesis in creative writing pedagogy, students were required to consider what their writing could do and discouraged from searching for a voice that replicated existing goals and expectations; they taught me a lot.