Courses taught at American University, Department of Literature

Graduate

  • “Modernisms and Modern Painting.” Interdisciplinary graduate seminar. Lit 738
  • “Readings in Genre: Poetry.” Graduate seminar. Lit 521

Undergraduate

  • “The Year 1922.” Advanced interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar. Lit 343/AMST 330
  • “The Poetry of Lyn Hejinian.” Independent Study, advanced undergraduate seminar. Lit 498
  • “Postwar Poetry in Context.” Advanced undergraduate seminar. Lit 496/696
  • “Modernisms and Modern Painting,” Advanced undergraduate seminar. Lit 321/621
  • “Americans in Paris.” Advanced interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar. American Studies AMST 330
  • “Experiments in Contemporary American Poetry.” Advanced undergraduate seminar. Cross-listed with American Studies. Lit 322/622
  • “The Experience of Poetry.” Undergraduate survey and General Education course. Lit 245
  • “Survey of British Literature II.” Undergraduate survey course. Lit 221
  • “Survey of American Literature II.” Undergraduate survey course. Lit 210
  • “Rethinking Literature: Angelheaded Hipsters & the Absurd.” Lit 121
  • “Creative Writing Across Genres.” Lit 107
  • “Great Books that Shaped the Western World.” General education course. Lit 125
  • “Interpreting Literature: The Lost Generation” General education course. Lit 120
  • “The Literary Imagination: Literary Transformations, from antiquity to modernism.” General education course. Lit 105

 

At New College Poetics Program, San Francisco

  • “Avant-Garde and Modernist Histories.” Interdisciplinary graduate course. Emphasis on transnational movements and interdisciplinary connections between literature and the visual arts.
  • Developed two-volume course reader of 20th century intellectual and cultural history.
  • Conducted film and slide presentations on avant-garde visual art movements.

 

At University of California at Berkeley, English Department. Instructor of record

  • “Adding Gertrude Stein, Recasting Modernism.” Advanced undergraduate seminar
  • “Turn of the Century Poetics: Women’s Writing from the Teens to Postmodernity.” Advanced undergraduate seminar
  • “Virginia Woolf: The Novel.” Sophomore year seminar
  • “Modernisms: Problems in Representation.” Introductory course in literary analysis
  • “Not to solve it but be in it: Forms of Knowledge in the Novel.” Introductory course in literary analysis
  • Delivered guest lectures for Professors Charles Altieri and Robert Hass on contemporary poetry, Gertrude Stein and modernism; research assistant to Professor Carolyn Porter.
  • Organized Townsend Humanities Poetry Colloquium and Holloway Poetry Reading Series, English Department, UC Berkeley. Responsible for administrating series budget, inviting and introducing poets, coordinating guest and student readers, 1994-1997.