Teaching

Current Courses

Fall 2020:

  • The Folklore of Emergency: Change, Continuity, and Communal Creativity Amid Crisis
  • The Art and Craft of Scholarly Storytelling: A Workshop in Folkloristic Expression

Spring 2021: 

  • Internet Folklore, Online Communities, and Digital Ethnography

Spring 2020:

  • African Storytellers and Oral Traditions: Folklore and the Verbal Arts from Abidjan to Zanzibar
  • Fieldwork, Ethnography, Ethics, and Social Engagement in Folklore
  Fall 2019:
  • The Storyteller in Flight: Migrant Narratives, Refugee Camp Cultures, and the Arts of Displacement

Past Courses

  • Beginning Kiswahili
  • Intermediate Kiswahili
  • Introduction to African Languages and Cultures (TF)
  • Performance, Tradition, and Culture: Introduction to Folklore and Mythology (TF)
  • Intermediate Fiction and Prose: Short Stories and Creative Nonfiction
  • Intermediate Creative Writing: The Art of Literary Imitation
  • Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry
  • Expository Writing: African Literature
  • Expository Writing: Introduction to Africa
  • Expository Writing: American Literature
  • The Folktale (TF)