Teaching

My teaching fields include modern and contemporary North American literature, culture, and intellectual history; poetry and poetics; critical race theory; decolonial literatures and pedagogies; histories and theories of anomalous experience; composition and creative writing; and publishing and book design.

In literature and writing classes alike, I aim to teach a wide range of materials that require us to hold in mind and action both what we have in common with one another and what we might experience very differently. I also encourage my students, regardless of the particular course or assignment, to honour and write through the value of their own experiences and to imagine new possibilities for how research might be undertaken and presented.

Alongside my regular delivery of English 100: University Writing Strategies and English 191: Creative Writing (Contemporary Practices), I have taught a range of other courses at Capilano, including:

ENGL 260: Writing Communities
ENGL 300: Writing, Rhetoric, Style
ENGL 103: Introduction to Literature — “The Construction of Genius”
ENGL 109: Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture — “The Art and Politics of Care”
ENGL 109: Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture — “The Poetics of Anger”