I primarily teach literature published in England in the very long Early Modern period, between 1500–1830, with an emphasis on the technologies of literature, authorship, and the intersections of race, gender, and empire. I also teach literary theory classes that combine traditional discourses of critical theory with book history and the digital humanities.

A significant part of my pedagogy is critical making, or having students re-create historical practices of literary technology to better understand how medium and form affect ideas and interpretation. I frequently blog about these exercises at Sammelband, including this post on manuscript circulation and this post on pamphlet binding. As an example, here is a syllabus for a senior-level class on literature of the English Renaissance that includes a unit on critical making alongside ones on race, gender, and mondernity and authorship and self-fashioning.

A significant part of my pedagogy is critical making, or having students re-create historical practices of literary technology to better understand how medium and form affect ideas and interpretation. I frequently blog about these exercises at Sammelband, including this post on manuscript circulation and this post on pamphlet binding. In 2022, I ran a course that used the Maker Studio space along with a computer lab and CPP’s special collections: ENG 4110 Technologies of Writing. Each workshop is explained in a Sammelband series, and they include everything from letterpress to a scriptorium to cuneiform to ebooks and zines.