Teaching Experience
Courses Taught (more details at the Classes page)
University of Maryland College Park
Graduate Courses in Women’s/LGBT Studies
- WMST 619. Teaching Practicum. Spring 2019.
- WMST 601. Producing Feminist Knowledge: Worldmaking and Critique in the Face of Violence. Core required seminar for Women’s Studies PhD and Graduate Certificate students. Fall 2016, 2017, 2019.
Undergraduate Courses in Women’s/LGBT Studies:
- WMST 488X: Feminist Conflict. Senior seminar in Women’s Studies. Spring 2019.
- WMST 350: Feminist Pedagogy. Supervision of two undergraduate teaching assistants for LGBT 200 while they undertake independent research in conjunction with the class. Spring 2016.
- WMST 498: Transforming Cultures and Technologies: Gender, Race, and Digital Media. Fall 2015.
- LGBT 488: Queer Futures. Senior seminar in LGBT Studies. Spring 2015.
- LGBT 200: Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. Fall 2014; Spring 2016.
Undergraduate Courses in Honors College (including Design Cultures & Creativity)
- HONR 219A: Science Fiction for Social Justice. Honors seminar. Spring 2018.
- HDCC 208J: Media, Culture, and Identity. Second-year scholarship in practice seminar in Design Cultures & Creativity Living-Learning Program. Fall 2019.
- HDCC 208E: Speculating Social Justice. Second-year scholarship in practice seminar in Design Cultures & Creativity Living-Learning Program. Fall 2015; 2016; 2017.
- HDCC 106: Gender, Race, and Labor in the Digital World / Digital Feminisms. First-year seminar in Design Cultures & Creativity Living-Learning Program. Spring 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019.
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English Department (Assistant Professor)
- English 985: Archives and Feelings: A Seminar in Critical Methodologies and Cultural Politics. 
Fall 2013. Doctoral seminar on critical theories of affect and the archive, focused on interdisciplinary studies of gender and race.
- English 985: Sexuality, Race, and Space: Queer Literary and Cultural Theory. Summer 2013. Doctoral seminar on intersectional queer studies approaches to literature and culture.
- English 762/862: American Futures: Science Fiction, Media, and Culture in the 20th Century. Spring 2013. Cross-listed masters and doctoral seminar focusing on how speculative cultural production operates as a mode of engagement with and intervention into discourses of technology, culture, gender, and race.
- Women’s Studies 200: Gender, Power, and Social Change: Introduction to Women’s Studies. Spring 2014.
- English 225: Identity, History, and Imagination: Introduction to Literature by Women. Spring 2014.
- English 121: Humanities Literature. Taught in 2013 as Dreams and Machines: Technology, Identity and Imagination and in 2012 as Rage Against the Machine: Literature, Technology, Society.
- English 101: Writing, Reading, Thinking, and Socializing in the Age of Digital Media. Fall 2012 (two sections); Spring 2013 (two sections).
University of Southern California, Thematic Option Honors Program (Assistant Lecturer)
- Thematic Option 112: Future Generations: Narratives of Reproductive Speculation (Spring 2011)
- Thematic Option 111: Writing Seminar 1: Authority, Love, and Rebellion (Fall 2010)
University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education SummerTIME Program (Instructor)
- Writing the Unspoken: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Violence (Summer 2009)
University of Southern California, Department of Gender Studies (Teaching Assistant)
- 210: Social Issues in Gender. Teaching Assistant to Judith Halberstam (Spring 2009)
University of Southern California, Writing Program (Assistant Lecturer)
- Writing 140: Argument and Analysis for Earthlings and Others (Fall 2008). Taught in conjunction with Philosophy 137: Social Ethics for Earthlings and Others, taught by Sharon Lloyd.
- Writing 140: Writing, Race, and Social Change (Fall 2007; Spring 2008). Taught in conjunction with American Studies 252: Black Social Movements in the USA (Fall 2007; Robin Kelley); American Studies 101: Race and Class in LA (Spring 2008; Sarah Gualtieri).
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Research Supervision (Completed)
Dissertations Chaired
- Gregory Luke Chwala, PhD in English Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: “Toward a Decolonial Queer Ecology: Reparative Reading of Gothic and Speculative Fiction.†Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Defended Fall 2017.
Dissertation Committees
- A Anthony, PhD in American Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Trans Space as Cultural Landscape: Transgender Women of Color in Washington, DC.†Defended Summer 2019.
- Justin Sprague, PhD in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Cooking with Mama Kim: The Legacy of Women (Re)Defining Korean-American Authenticity Through Food.†Defended Fall 2018.
- Michael Boynton, PhD in Theatre and Performance, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Performing Nerd: The American Nerd, Popular Culture, and Identity Formation.†Defended Fall 2017.
- Melissa Rogers, PhD in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Soft Circuitry: Methods for Queer and Trans Feminist Maker Cultures.†Defended Fall 2017.
- Lauren Shoemaker, PhD in English Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: “Structures of Terror in Caribbean Women’s Writing.†Defended Spring 2017.
- Jessica Lloyd Krenek, PhD in Theatre and Performance with Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “You never want to be a story on a podcast: Sexuality, Gender, and the Performance of Wrestling Fan Culture.†Defended Spring 2017.
- Avery Dame, PhD in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Talk Amongst Yourselves: On Transgender Community Online.†Defended Spring 2017.
- Jarah Moesch, PhD in American Studies with Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, University of Maryland College Park. Dissertation: “Designing the Sick Body: Structuring Illness in the Techno-Material Age.†Committee member. Defended Fall 2016.
- Kathryn Kein, PhD in American Studies, George Washington University. Dissertation: “Hysterical Feminism: Humor, Affect, and Comedy’s Role in the Movement for Women’s Liberation, 1955-1990.†Outside committee member for dissertation defended Spring 2016.
- Forrest Helvie, PhD in English Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: “Capes and the Canon: Comic Book Superheroes and Canonical American Literature.†Defended Fall 2013.
International Doctoral Theses Examined
- Doctor of Philosophy, Flinders University, Australia.
- Doctor of Creative Arts, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.
Comprehensive Exam Committees at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Eliza Albert (Travel and Identity in 20th/21st-Century Fiction, Indiana U of PA)
- Luke Chwala (Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies, Indiana U of PA)
- Brandon Galm (Multi-Ethnic Literature on Race, Place, Space, and Nature, Indiana U of PA)
- Julia Grove (20th-Century Modern and Postmodern Temporality, Indiana U of PA)
- Amy Klemm (Queer Theory / Gender Studies, Indiana U of PA)
- Jason Lulos (Literature of Rebellion, Indiana U of PA)
- Thomas Powers (Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies, Indiana U of PA)
- Stacy Santoro-Murphy (Women Writing Illness and Disability, Indiana U of PA)
- Lauren Shoemaker (Queer Critiques of Environment and Empire, Indiana U of PA)
- Rochelle Spencer (Literary Postmodernism and the Afro-Futurist Writer, Indiana U of PA)
- Rob Welch (Affect Theory, Indiana U of PA).
Graduate Independent Studies Supervised
- Media Fandom (University of Maryland College Park)
- Speculative Gender in Feminist Science Fiction (University of Maryland College Park)
- Queer of Color Critique (University of Maryland College Park)
- Marxist Theory and Science Fiction (Indiana U of PA)
- Feminist Theory and Science Fiction (Indiana U of PA)
- Queer Theory, Race, and the Transnational (Indiana U of PA)
- Queer Comics Studies (Indiana U of PA)