Teaching

Macalester College

  • ENGL 115: “Introduction to Shakespeare”
  • ENGL 140: “Once upon a Crime: An Introduction to Law and Literature”
  • ENGL 200: “Major British Authors: Medieval and Renaissance”
  • ENGL 294: “Curse/Cure: Literature, Medicine, and Magic in the Renaissance”
  • ENGL 294 and 394: “Demonologie”
  • ENGL 294-MUSIC 294: “Adaptations: Shakespeare, Verdi, and the Politics of Art” (co-teachingwith Mark Mazullo, Music)
  • ENGL 294-CHIN 294: “Literature and the Arts of Empire: Early Modern China and England” (co-teaching with Rivi Handler-Spitz, Chinese), Spring 2024.
  • ENGL 294 “Shakespeare’s History Plays: The Second Tetralogy”
  • ENGL 310: “Shakespeare and Justice”
  • ENGL 394: “Disability in the English Renaissance.”
  • ENGL 401: “Senior Capstone,” Spring 2017, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.
  • ENGL 611 and 612, Independent Project/Study (1-2 credits)
  • ENGL 612, Independent Project (4-credit)
  • ENGL 624-23: Internship Advising
  • ENGL 632-23: Preceptorship Supervision
  • Advisor (Chair/First Reader), Macalester Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis
  • Second Reader, Macalester Undergraduate Senior Honors Thesis
  • Summer Research Project Advisor

University of Southern California

  • Core 111: “Cultures and Values: Inspiration,” Thematic Option Program
  • Core 112: “Close Encounters: Plotting Cultural Difference,” Thematic Option Program
  • Core 112: “Revolutions in Reading,” Thematic Option Program
  • WRIT 140: “Writing: Diversity and Racial Conflict,” Writing Program
  • WRIT 140: “Writing: Environment and Ethics,” Writing Program
  • WRIT 140: “Writing: Law, Politics, and Public Policy,” Writing Program
  • WRIT 150: “Writing: Law and Social Justice,” Writing Program

Guest Teaching

  • With Alli St. John, “‘I hardly yet have learned’: Tools for Teaching Shakespeare,” Session for High School, College, and University Educators, A Shakespeare Symposium, The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, April 20, 2024.
  • Timon of Athens,” Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 21 Feb. 2023.
  • “Early Modern Ballads,” 200-level course, Creative Writing, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 9 March, 2022.
  • “Dressing to Transgress,” 200-level course, English, Bryn Mawr College, Feb. 11, 2022.
  • “Margaret Cavendish,” 200-level course, Philosophy, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, 12 Feb. 2020.
  • “Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I,” 100-level course, Religious Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN,30 Oct. 2019.
  • The Witch of Edmonton,” 200-level course, English, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA, 14 Apr. 2019.
  • King Lear and Schadenfreude,” 400-level course, English, USC, LA, CA, 11 Apr. 2019.
  • “Performing Supplication in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” graduate seminar, English, Peking University, China, 18 Dec. 2014.
  • “Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: Tragedy of Law,” 400-level course, English, USC, LA, CA, 1Dec. 2014.
  • “Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus,” 400-level course, English, USC, LA, CA, 10 Apr. 2014.
  • “John Foxe’s The Book of Martyrs,” graduate seminar, English, USC, LA, CA, 29 Jan. 2014.
  • “Shakespeare’s The Tempest,” high school senior seminar, Alverno High School, Sierra Madre, CA, 2 Dec. 2013.
  • “Researching Shakespeare at the Huntington Library and British Library,” graduate seminar, English Department, Peking University, China, 21 Dec. 2012.
  • “Revenge Tragedy as Ur-Gothic,” 400-level course, English Department, USC, LA, CA, 6 Sept. 2012.
  • “The Life and Martyrdom of Anne Askew,” 300-level course, English, USC, LA, CA, 23 Sept. 2010.

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