I fell in love with teaching in the summer of 2013 while teaching credit recovery to 9th and 10th-grade high school students in Crenshaw. Since then, I’ve taught middle schoolers, high schoolers, undergraduates, and adult learners. I’ve helped build a school from the ground up as a founding sophomore teacher, developed academic programs, designed interdisciplinary project-based learning curricula, and led professional development for K-12 and faculty educators.
Each section of this first-year composition course is designed around an instructor-designed central theme or inquiry. I have designed and taught six distinct themed sections:
From the Pen to the LLM
Fall 2026 (In-Person) | Syllabus
Spring 2026 (In-Person) | Syllabus
Stories That Matter: Objects, Archives, and Memory | Fall 2025 (In-Person) | Syllabus
Rhetoric is Everywhere | Summer 2025 (Asynchronous Online) | Syllabus
Multimodal Composition | Spring 2024 (In-Person) | Syllabus | Public Issuer Site
Rhetorics of American Pop Culture | Fall 2022 (In-Person) | Syllabus
Project-Based Writing | Spring 2022 (In-Person) | Syllabus
ENGL3362: Crafting Activism: Democracy, Composition, and DIY Rhetorics | Fall 2023 | In-Person | Syllabus
Cross-listed with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. This upper-division elective for English majors engages with the history, theory, and production of DIY, multimodal, and craft rhetorics as a way to better understand public rhetorical actions connected to social activist movements, including feminist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist, anti-war, and anti-racist movements.
ENGL1080: Literature Core: Bad Girls, Unruly, Cruel, Nasty Women in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture | Spring 2023 | In-Person | Syllabus | A Zine for Analyzing Literature
This introductory literature course examines discourses of femininity in literature, film, and popular culture, paying particular attention to the ways that performances of female rebellion stretch, bend, or challenge dominant understandings of what it means to be female in historical and contemporary American culture.
ENGL2212: Introduction to Medical Humanities (Teaching Assistant) | Fall 2021 | Syllabus
This course introduces students to the field of medical humanities, an interdisciplinary study of illness, health, health care, and the body. Specifically, this course explores the experience of illness as represented in novels, poems, drama, and non-fiction as well as the ethical, social and political issues raised by the practice of medicine. Our bodies are part of a body politic and during this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, we will explore the ways in which our health is not just individual but communal, as concepts of contagion and globalization challenge the notion of the body’s boundaries. We also study issues raised by the disabled body and finally, of the dying body
ADBM2250: Design Thinking & Creativity
This course introduces Design Thinking as an action-oriented creative process for engaging deeply with the problems that matter to students. The course develops habits of mind and tools for thinking that make creativity a reliable resource; cultivates empathy for others and oneself as the starting point for creative problem-solving; builds flexibility by reframing problems and moving beyond first good ideas; and fosters an experimental mindset for testing ideas collaboratively.
Semesters Taught & Modality: Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024 (Asynchronous Online); Spring 2023 (Hybrid); Spring 2022 (Hybrid, Co-Taught with Timothy Lindgren)