Director of Junior Tutorials

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