Teaching

Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2020
This Expos 20 course addresses recent claims that we are living in a “post-truth world" and the challenges those claims pose: how do we make arguments when truth is subjective, and fact divided into mainstream and alternative forms? What can we prove, and how do we prove it? Is it possible to draw clear lines between fact and fiction, truth and lies?

ENG 98r: Romantic Lives and Afterlives (as Instructor)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2018
This tutorial focuses on the lives and legacies of several major Romantic poets. Students examine material evidence⏤including drafts, journals, correspondence with friends, collaborators, and publishers⏤to gain a sense of the communities and coteries at the heart of Romantic writing. At the same time, students will explore the development of the Romantic poets' posthumous reputations, their influence on later writers, and their critical heritage. This tutorial also introduces students to the procedures of literary scholarship at an upper-division level.

HUM 10a: A Humanities Colloquium: From Homer to García Márquez (as Expos Instructor)

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2017
2,500 years of essential works, taught by six professors. Humanities 10a includes works by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare, Mozart, Austen, Douglass, and Garcia Marquez, as well as the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Declaration of Independence. Students also have opportunities to visit cultural venues and attend musical and theatrical events in Cambridge or Boston.

Wise Fantasies: Young Adult Literature (as Instructor)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

This tutorial will focus on young adult literature alongside selected poetry, philosophy, and criticism. Particular emphasis on these texts, and the fantastical realms in which they play out, as spaces of moral and psychological experimentation. Readings from Wordsworth, Hoffman, Grimm, Carroll, Lewis, Rowling, Pullman, & others. This tutorial will also serve as an introduction to certain literary theories, including theories of narrative, literature and psychoanalysis, influence, and allusion.

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Narrative Poetry (as Teaching Fellow)

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2014

This course is a general introduction to reading poetry, with a focus on narrative poetry. We begin with Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost, and then turn to eighteenth-century mock epics and verse narratives by Pope and Swift, and work by the Romantics, particularly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. The course will end with Byron’s satiric masterstroke, Don Juan, and TS Eliot’s toppled epic, The Waste Land.

Narrative Poetry (as Teaching Fellow)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2014

This course is a general introduction to reading poetry, with a focus on narrative poetry. We begin with Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost, and then turn to eighteenth-century mock epics and verse narratives by Pope and Swift, and work by the Romantics, particularly Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats. The course will end with Byron’s satiric masterstroke, Don Juan, and TS Eliot’s toppled epic, The Waste Land.