As a teacher, Alex tends to structure their courses around collaborative projects, which transform the classroom into an experimental workshop that fosters creative, collective inquiry. In Alex’s classes and tutorials, students can expect to learn skills such as close reading, historically-oriented cultural analysis, and effective academic writing. Students should also expect to think deeply about the assumptions that frame aesthetic interpretation and historical inquiry. Overall, Alex’s pedagogical approach enables students to build concrete connections between modes of representation and overarching power structures. 

Prior to starting at History & Literature, Alex designed and taught the following courses in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder:

• Imagining Community in American Literature and Song (Spring 2017)
• American Literature and the Sonic Imagination Since 1950 (Fall 2016)
• Introduction to LGBT Literature (Spring 2013)
• Music and Intimacy in Modern and Contemporary Literature (Fall 2012)
• Literature, Race, and Belonging (Spring 2012)
• Introduction to American Ethnic Literatures (Fall 2011)
• Masterpieces of American Literature (Fall 2010)