Courses Taught

Courses Taught as Instructor of Record:

English 105i: Writing in Business

Course on written and oral argumentation, composition, research, information literacy, and rhetorical analysis, specifically in the disciplinary context of business, for first-year undergraduate students

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Supervised by Dr. Daniel Anderson, Dir. of the UNC Writing Program.

English 105: Writing at the Research University (formerly titled “Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric” until Fall 2019)

Course on writing across disciplines, genres, and modalities for first-year undergraduate students

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Supervised by Dr. Daniel Anderson, Dir. of the UNC Writing Program.

ENGL 148: Introduction to Horror

Undergraduate course that examines the complexities and pleasures of horror, from its origins in Gothic and pre-Gothic literatures and arts, with topics including psychology, aesthetics, politics, allegory, ideology, and ethics

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Spring 2025, Section 002. Supervised by Dr. Joseph Fletcher, Dir. of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature.

English 105i: Writing in Health and Medicine

Course on written and oral argumentation, composition, research, information literacy, and rhetorical analysis, specifically in the disciplinary context of medicine, for first-year undergraduate students

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Supervised by Dr. Daniel Anderson, Dir. of the UNC Writing Program.

ENGL 123: Introduction to Fiction

Undergraduate course introducing students to novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2019, Section 003. Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Larson, Dir. of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature.

SPCL 395: Special Studies

Undergraduate independent-study course as a supplement to regular coursework in ENGL 123: Introduction to Fiction

Instructor of Record. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2019. Supervised by Dr. Jennifer Larson, Dir. of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature.

Courses Taught as Teaching Fellow or Teaching Assistant:

African Studies S350/Film S340/Health S350: Visual Approaches to Global Health

Summer session study-abroad undergraduate course combining traditional epidemiological methods with visual storytelling in Johannesburg, South Africa and Mbabane, Eswatini (formerly named Swaziland)

Teaching Fellow. Yale University, Summer Session, Programs Abroad. New Haven, CT; Johannesburg, South Africa; Mbabane, Eswatini. Supervised by Professor Jonathan Smith, course instructor.

IDST 121: Performing and Imagining the American South

Undergraduate seminar course that examines the American South through its music, film, literature, and public rhetoric, to consider how those elements intersect with economic, technological, and political factors, interrogating how Southern identity arises from more than a line on a map

Teaching Assistant. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Spring 2024. Supervised by course instructors Dr. Florence Dore, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Dr. David Garcia, Professor of Music; and Dr. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Professor of History.

CMPL 143: History of Global Cinema

Undergraduate course designed to introduce students to the field of global cinema and, thence, to the methods of comparativist film study

Teaching Assistant. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Spring 2023, Recitations 602 and 604. Supervised by course instructor Dr. Martin Johnson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Undergraduate Studies.

ENGL 268: Medicine, Literature, and Culture

Undergraduate course on the close affinities among literary representation, medical science, and clinical practice

Teaching Assistant. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Fall 2019, Recitations 602 and 604. Supervised by course instructor Dr. Jane Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Other Teaching Experience:

Summer Reading Courses

Summer reading courses for elementary, middle, high school, and college-age students and adults on reading fluency and comprehension; absorption in imaginative literature; identification with characters; reading and studying textbooks and other non-fiction; speed-reading and reporting techniques; writing instruction on main ideas, grammar, and detail

Instructor of Record for Summer In-Person and Online Reading Classes. Institute of Reading Development. Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. Supervised by Maddie Cook, Teacher Supervisor. Taught 12-14 class sessions per week, averaging twenty-three hours of in-class teaching per week.

Peer Mentoring Committee (PMC)

Graduate student position in which a graduate student instructor observes other fellow graduate student instructors as they teach an undergraduate class session, evaluates their teaching methods, and meets with that graduate student instructor to provide constructive feedback and actionable steps for improvement moving forward

Member of Peer Mentoring Committee (PMC), observing, evaluating, and providing feedback to fellow graduate student instructors, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature, Writing Program. Supervised by Andreley Bjelland, Head of the Peer Mentoring Committee, and Dr. Dan Anderson, Dir. of the UNC-Chapel Hill ECL Writing Program.

  • Fall 2023
  • Spring 2024