If you are here looking for information about me as a teacher or my courses, hello! I know that sites like Rate My Professor exist, but I’d rather you also heard from me about how I teach and what you’ll be learning in my classes. My PhD is in eighteenth-century studies, so most of my courses have their “home base” in English literature from 1660-1830. However, I bring in a lot of different methodologies to the study of this literature and history. 

I try to design all my courses around intersectional feminist principles and universal design. In my classes, you’ll be part of an ongoing dialogue: what’s working? what’s not? what do we need to be successful? This means you’ll be asked to take greater agency over your learning, and the students who do best in my courses are self-motivated and able to articulate what they want out of the semester’s learning objectives. This isn’t a situation where you’ll be given a list of rules to follow and you memorize them, nor am I going to motivate you with a stick. It’s mostly carrots over here. I hope you’ll be up for the challenge, and trust me it’s worth the shift in how we think about learning.