Teaching

University of North Carolina (2015-present)

Slavery and the Holocaust in American Fiction and Film

100-level English and Comparative Literature elective satisfying cultural diversity core requirement

Lynching in American Literature and Culture

100-level English and Comparative Literature elective satisfying cultural diversity core requirement

The God(s) of Slavery: Religious Experience in Early African-American Literature

300-level course satisfying African American Literature to 1930 major elective

Holocaust Literatures in Translation

400-level English and Comparative Literature elective on topics in memory and literature

America’s Strange Fruit: Lynching in Literature and Culture

Graduate-level English and Comparative Literature elective in cultural studies

The Literature of Hate

Graduate-level English and Comparative Literature elective in cultural studies 

University of Illinois (2009-13)

 Introduction to Film: Understanding Movies

100-level English elective and Moving Image Arts core course designed to provide a broad overview of film theory and strategies

Nazisploitation!: Holocaust Perpetrators in American Film

100-level English and film elective on contemporary topics in film and culture 

The Internet as Public Sphere: Writing the Worldwide Web

100-level blended composition course with instruction split equally between in-person and online environments

Communities, Technology, and the Stakes of Digital Social Media

100-level multimedia composition course required for students doing community internships as a part of the Chicago Civic Leadership Certificate Program

 Understanding Rhetoric: Rhetoric In-the-World and Online

100-level multimedia composition course required for students doing community internships as a part of the Chicago Civic Leadership Certificate Program

Writing Slums: Squatters in First and Third World Megacities

100-level composition course introducing academic genres through the rhetoric of contemporary political controversies

 Writing Genocide: Answering America’s “Never Again”

100-level composition course introducing academic genres through the rhetoric of contemporary political controversies

 Rhetoric and Public Life: Writing for Social Change

300-level capstone composition course for students doing community internships as a part of the Chicago Civic Leadership Certificate Program