Overview

My diverse scholarly interests inform my approach to teaching. In both literature and composition classes, I help students recognize all answers, analysis, and rhetorical choices as contingent. We continually select from myriad possible options. Simultaneously, students learn that not all options are created equal—they develop a critical awareness of how and why to make specific choices.

Courses

Assistant Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University                 2017-Present

• English 202D-Business Writing
  • Eighteen sections
    • Three sections taught online
    • Three sections taught online for a partial semester
• English 202A-Writing for the Social Sciences
  • Two sections
• English 15-Rhetoric and Composition
  • Twenty-seven sections
    • Five sections taught online
    • One section paired with ECON 104-Macroeconomics, through the LEAP Program

Graduate Teaching Assistant, instructor of record, West Virginia University    2011-2016

• English 262-British Literature 2
  • One section
    • One section taught online
• English 261-British Literature 1
  • Two sections
• English 257-Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • One section
• English 131-Poetry and Drama
  • One section
• English 102-Composition and Rhetoric
  • Twelve sections
  • One section taught online
• English 101-Composition and Rhetoric
  • Four sections

Graduate Teaching Assistant, instructor of record, University of Vermont         2009-2011

• English 001-Written Expression
  • Six sections

Attached Tutor, Shepherd University                                                             2008-2009

• English 100B-Basic Academic Writing II
  • One section
• English 100A-Basic Academic Writing I
  • One section

English and History Tutor, Shepherd University                                          2007-2009