Teaching Statement

I use my background in art and multimedia to step outside of the purely textual and introduce students to critical works in film, art, and music. Being engaged by the professor through insightful lectures and compelling group discussions is the thread that connects every successful classroom I've been a part of — whether as a student or an instructor.

In the fall of 2022 I taught a course titled Cults and Conspiracies. We surveyed materials produced by cults and conspiracy theorists as our primary texts. Students learned to examine everything from initiation videos, musical compositions, and recordings of seminars led by cult leaders to better understand these phenomena.

Syllabus for Cults & Conspiracies

During my time as a master's student at the University of Wyoming, I was interviewed about how I weave my research on spatial theory into teaching writing. In the fall of 2018 I taught a course of my own design at the Wyoming Medium Correctional Institution through the Wyoming Pathways from Prison program. Structured as a seminar and writing workshop, the course was titled Alternative Autobiographies. Featuring texts like Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Joe Brainard’s I Remember, the class prompted students to experiment with and break from traditional storytelling techniques. The experience of watching twelve men in orange jumpsuits discuss Hejinian’s construction of self and debate the meaning of a fragmented narrative revealed their capacity to reimagine the genre of autobiography as something that didn’t need to follow a simple chronology.