Teaching Overview

Sample Course Overviews

First-Year Writing - Academic Community Engaged (ACE) Course

My first-year writing courses are designated Academic Community Engaged (ACE) Courses at SHSU. In this course, we partner with retirement communities and senior centers. Students record senior citizens' oral histories and learn about their experiences with reading and writing throughout their lives to enhance their understanding of literacy. 

Advanced Composition - Writing about Health, Medicine, and Disability

In this junior-level composition courses, we explore the vast array of (creative) nonfiction writing about health, medicine, and disability in order to understand how rhetoric is embedded in all aspects of human interaction and communities (including scientific and medical communities) and how rhetoric is performed by human and nonhuman actors.

Studies in Rhetoric and Composition Course - Graduate Course on Disability Rhetorics

This fully-online, graduate-level course introduces students to the field of disability rhetorics and foundational concepts and texts, while also focusing on important contemporary revisions of the field, especially with a focus on intersectionality. Students approach disability rhetorics from rhetorical and technical communication approaches in order to appreciate the broad reach of this emergent field.

Teaching Philosophy

Check out my Online Literacy Instruction (OLI) portfolio, which I created for GSOLE's 2020-2021 Basic OLI Certification Course as well as my Statement of Teaching Philosophy.

Teaching Experience

Sam Houston State University. Huntsville, TX.
Assistant Professor. 2019-Present
            Courses taught:
            ENGL 1301 College Composition I
            ENGL 3377 Argument & Persuasion
            ENGL 3380 Advanced Composition 
            ENGL 4335 Studies in Rhetoric (special topics course taught as an introduction to embodied rhetorical theory and inquiry)
​            ENGL 5384 Rhetoric and Composition Theory
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University of Nevada, Reno. Reno, Nevada.
Teaching Assistant. 2014-2019.
            Courses taught:
            ENG 321 Expository Writing
            WMST 101 Introduction to Women's Studies
            ENG 100J Composition Studio
            ENG 101 College Composition I
            ENG 102 College Composition II
 
American River College. Sacramento, California.
Adjunct Instructor, 2012-2014.
             Courses taught:
            ENGWR 43 Writing Skills Center
            ENGWR 51 Developmental Writing
            ENGWR 102 Proficient Writing
            ENGWR 300 College Composition (hybrid online and in-class and traditional classroom)
            ENGWR 302 Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking
            ENGWR 95, 96, 306 Beginning & Advanced Writing across the Curriculum
 
Yuba Community College. Marysville, California.
Adjunct Instructor, 2012-2015.
             Courses taught:
            ENGL 105 Pre-Collegiate Composition and Reading
            ENGL 51 Preparatory Composition and Reading
            ENGL 1A College Composition and Reading
            ENGL 1B Writing about Literature and Critical Thinking
 
Folsom Lake College. Folsom, California.
Adjunct Instructor, 2012-2013.
             Courses taught:
            ENGWR 101 College Writing
 
California State University, Sacramento. Sacramento, California.
Teaching Assistant, 2011.
             Courses taught: 
            ENGL 1A College Composition