PhD
Writing and Critical Reasoning: Issues in Education and Intellectual Development
Writing Program
University of Southern California
Topics-based writing course on issues of education and intellectual development.
Introduction to Disability Studies
American Studies
Smith College
Introductory exploration of the field of disability studies. This course asks: how do we define disability? Who is disabled? And what scholarly resources do we need to properly study or understand disability?
Disability and Popular Culture
American Studies
Smith College
The purpose of this course will be to investigate what arguments popular texts make, whether implicitly or explicitly, about disability.
Performing Deviant Bodies
American Studies
Smith College
How does one perform non-normative embodiment in daily life? In drama or theater? In film and popular culture?
Medicine, Ableism, and Self-Representation
American Studies
Smith College
In this course, we will investigate how and why disabled writers deploy auto-biographical genres – whether in photography, graphic novels, live performance, film, or written narrative.
Literature and Film
English Literature
University of Texas at Austin
Introduction to issues of adaptation in literature, drama, and film.
Women's Popular Performance Genres
English Literature
University of Texas at Austin
From blues singers of the 1920s to Broadway actresses of the 21st century, women have used popular performance genres to become authors and think about their actions in the world. Reading across theater, Broadway musicals, film, television, and musical performance, this course asks: how does popular performance allow minority subjects to re-work dominant cultural forms?
Reading Women Writers
English Literature
University of Texas at Austin
Introduction to American women's literature.
Rhetorics of Popular Feminisms
Rhetoric and Writing
University of Texas at Austin
Topics-based writing class on images of feminism in popular culture.
Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
Rhetoric and Writing
University of Texas at Austin
First-year writing seminar.
Masterworks of American Literature
English Literature
University of Texas at Austin
Historically-arranged survey of American literature that includes voices and perspectives spanning the 17th to 21st centuries.
Masterworks of World Literature
English Literature
University of Texas at Austin
Survey course in world literature with an emphasis on global modern literature. Enlightenment, realism, modernism, and post-modernism.