Courses Taught: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA: Department of English - Fall, 2008 - Eng 101 - Composition (See syllabus) Intensive practice in drafting, revising, and editing expository essays of some length and complexity. Study of the logical, rhetorical, and linguistic structure of expository prose. Methods and conventions of preparing research papers.
- Eng 201 - Reading and Writing About Texts (See syllabus) Close analysis of literary texts, including but not limited to poetry, fiction, and drama. Emphasis on reading and writing exercises to develop basic interpretive skills. Examination of figurative language, central ideas, relationship between structure and meaning, narrative point of view, etc.
New Century College - 2008-2009 - NCLC 130, The Social World (See syllabus) Course designed to focus on the social world across cultures and history. Students will investigate how the world is both model and mirror of social behavior and are encouraged to model interdisciplinary thinking, analysis and synthesis, and explanation and understanding. Topics: Borders - How do we organize spaces and establish borders? Spaces - What is nature and what is natural? Community and Identity - What constitutes identity, community? Belief, Ideas, and Values - What are our underlying beliefs about how society should be organized? Performance and Interpretation - How does performance [concert, theatre, film, video, dance, performance art, etc.] express a view and offer an interpretation of society?
Harold Washington College, Humanities Department, Chicago, IL Interdisciplinary investigation of relationships between American life and popular culture; includes defining popular culture and high culture; roles of formulating popular culture in films; role of advertising in popular culture; stereotypes of the sexes and ethnic groups; role of sports in American life; popular music and its audience; and television. Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL (2005-2008) Cultural Studies, Liberal Education Department (2007-2008) - Introduction to Cultural Studies (2 semesters - See sample syllabus) Course introduces students to the terms, analytical techniques, and interpretive strategies commonly employed in Cultural Studies. Emphasis is on interdisciplinary approaches to exploring how cultural processes and artifacts are produced, shaped, distributed, consumed and responded to in diverse ways.
- Cybercultures: Theory (1 semester - See syllabus) Seminar course explores cyberspace, the most powerful and frequently inhabited site within contemporary culture. Students will explore specific themes such as, identity, community, bodies, virtuality, and sexuality through the lens of post-structuralist, postmodern, cyberfeminist, cyborg, and digital culture theories.
English Department (2005-2008) - Reviewing the Arts (7 semesters -See sample syllabus) Course in applied critical writing about arts and culture, with an emphasis on “re-viewing” in which students combine both theory and practice of re-viewing and writing about arts and culture by examining and discussing important issues, controversies, and theories around how we view and re-view arts and culture.
- Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace (2 semesters - See sample syllabus) Course explores literature through the lens of cyberspace culture and engages issues such as virtual and shifting realities, the (re) construction of identities, and the fluidity of space/time inherent in the literature of cyberspace. Students identify and discuss a broad array of themes, tropes, and figures of cyberspace literature. Authors studied include, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula LeGuin, Neal Stephenson, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, William Gibson, Shelley Jackson, Jeanette Winterson, and Stuart Moulthrop.
- Introduction to Literature (1 semester - See syllabus) Course introduces students to the genres (literary forms) of fiction, drama, nonfiction, and poetry, specifically geared towards establishing connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications by thoughtful and careful reading, analysis, and interpretation of narratives from a variety of writers from a number of culturally diverse backgrounds.
- Composition I (2 semesters - See sample syllabus) Course designed to help students explore the process of writing through stages: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. Students practice and develop critical thinking skills and effective strategies through journals and engaging creative writing exercises; while more formal written assignments help students emphasize expressive and persuasive writing and reading skills.
Fiction Writing Department (2007)
- Writer's Portfolio (1 semester - See syllabus) Capstone course that assists students in developing their body of written work (whether written in or out of class, published or non-published) into a portfolio aimed towards showcasing strong examples of their writing.
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