As Director of Junior Tutorials (2016-17, 2018-23), I have helped develop syllabi, train teaching fellows, and supervise courses on:
Spring 2022
- Growing-Up Literature: Fantasies of Property in American Literature
- Dystopian Visions
- Double Portraits: Reading Poets Side-by-Side from the Romantics to the Present
- From Emotions to Affect: Modern and Contemporary Women’s Writing in English
- The Art of Minor Feelings: Asian American Emotional Lives in Contemporary Literature
Fall 2021
- Border-Crossing Fictions of the 20th Century
- The Law and Literature of American Slavery
- Literature and Medicine: Illness, Disability & Neurodiversity
- Social Science Fiction from the Sixties to the Present
- Science Fiction(al) and Magical Realities
Spring 2021
- Queer Quixotism: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Legacy of Don Quixote
- Social Science Fiction from the Sixties to the Present
- J. M. Coetzee: Writers and Political Responsibility
- After War
- (Write it!) Disaster: Literary Form and Catastrophe
Fall 2020
- Identity and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, the Gawain Poet, and Christine de Pizan
- Passing for Oneself Literature of Passing, Covering, and Becoming
- Literature and the Social Contract: Rights, Representation, Resistance
- Comedy, Satire, and Laughter in 18th-Century Britain
- Feminist Fictions
Spring 2020
- Precarious Lives: Tales of Survival at the Margins of English Society
- The Day After Tomorrow: Climate Change Fiction from 1850 to the Present
- The Transcendentalists and Their Legacy
- Fiction and Therapy from Psychoanalysis to CBT
- Women and Science in the Long Eighteenth Century
- The Long and the Short: Modern and Contemporary American Poets
- Shakespeare and Beyond: An Introducton to Popular Drama in Early Modern England
Fall 2019
- Adaptation: Form, Canon, Culture
- Henry James: Language and Style
- On Writing and Being Poor: Samuel Johnson to Roberto Bolaño
- The Inklings: Canon, Criticism, and Genre Fiction
- The Queer Bildungsroman
- Strange Intimacies: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Affect in American Fiction
Spring 2019
- "Go Little Book" -- First Books of Major Poets
- Novel Forums: Women Writers and the Development of the Novel
- Writing Medieval and Early Modern Women
- Contemporary Science Fiction and Critical Theory
- Victorian Literature and the British Empire
- American Apparitions: Gothic and Supernatural Fiction in America, 1780-1900
- Myths and Methods: Modernism through the Long Poem
Fall 2018
- Anglophone Caribbean Novels
- The Perfect Experiment: Two Hundred Years of American Short Fiction
- Feminist Fictions
- Making the Modern Animal
- Exile and Return: Affects of Transnational Literature
- Globalizing Memory: The Aferlives of War
Spring 2017
- Unreal City?: Imagining the Urban in Medieval and Modern Literature
- The Campus Novel
- Children's Literature
- American Poetry Right Now
- Post-Downton Abbey: The Dying Generation of the English Country House
- The Critic as Artist
- Magical Realism: Hemispheric, Diasporic, Global
- WWII and the Work of Memory
Fall 2016
- The Gothic and the Novel
- Tragic Flaws: Cripping Western Drama
- Queer Theory &...
- The Perfect Experiment: Two Hundred Years of American Short Fiction
- Modernist Women Writers
- Suspicious Characters: Postmodern Detectives and Critics
- The Rhetoric of Color in the English Renaissance