Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
(Fall 2017)
(Fall 2017)
Motifs of Madness in Literature and Culture
(Spring 2018)
This course will focus on the depiction of mental illness in western literature and culture as organized around particular themes of contemporary interest. We will study relevant primary, theoretical and contextual materials around the chosen themes. Such themes might include mental illness and crime fiction; gothic madness; burnout; obsession.
(Spring 2018)
This course will focus on the depiction of mental illness in western literature and culture as organized around particular themes of contemporary interest. We will study relevant primary, theoretical and contextual materials around the chosen themes. Such themes might include mental illness and crime fiction; gothic madness; burnout; obsession.
Narrating Madness in Literature and Culture
(Spring 2018)
This master's level course will consider depictions of madness in western literature from the Middle Ages to the present (all texts will be read in modern English translation). While locating texts within their contemporary contexts as far as religion, gender and medicine, the course will engage with significant modern theoretical discussions of madness and creativity as offered by Foucault, Freud and others. (Syllabus here).
(Spring 2018)
This master's level course will consider depictions of madness in western literature from the Middle Ages to the present (all texts will be read in modern English translation). While locating texts within their contemporary contexts as far as religion, gender and medicine, the course will engage with significant modern theoretical discussions of madness and creativity as offered by Foucault, Freud and others. (Syllabus here).
Blaming the Body
Ethics, Medicine and Culture in Western Europe (Spring 2017)
This master's level course will survey the ways in which Western European culture has rooted ethical actions and thoughts in the body from the premodern period to the early twentieth century. Ultimately, this survey will allow students to interrogate the persistence of older ideas in contemporary cultural attitudes and scientific research questions as posed by cognitive scientists and biological psychiatrists among others.
In our seminars, we will examine excerpts from a range of texts, such as medical tracts, legal treatises, illness narratives, poetry and sermons, in modern English translation.
Ethics, Medicine and Culture in Western Europe (Spring 2017)
This master's level course will survey the ways in which Western European culture has rooted ethical actions and thoughts in the body from the premodern period to the early twentieth century. Ultimately, this survey will allow students to interrogate the persistence of older ideas in contemporary cultural attitudes and scientific research questions as posed by cognitive scientists and biological psychiatrists among others.
In our seminars, we will examine excerpts from a range of texts, such as medical tracts, legal treatises, illness narratives, poetry and sermons, in modern English translation.
Academic Writing
(teaching now)
I teach and have taught a variety of academic writing courses for undergraduate and doctoral students. I am also involved with the Faculty of Arts Doctoral College. You can read the Proceedings of the Second Faculty of Arts Doctoral College Conference here.
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(teaching now)
I teach and have taught a variety of academic writing courses for undergraduate and doctoral students. I am also involved with the Faculty of Arts Doctoral College. You can read the Proceedings of the Second Faculty of Arts Doctoral College Conference here.
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Literary Theory and Methods
(taught Autumn 2013)
For this online master's level survey course, I taught seminars on traditional criticism, practical criticism, post-colonialism, Marxism and new historicism, feminism, the body and affect, the history of the book and sociological methods.
(taught Autumn 2013)
For this online master's level survey course, I taught seminars on traditional criticism, practical criticism, post-colonialism, Marxism and new historicism, feminism, the body and affect, the history of the book and sociological methods.
Teaching Experience
- Old and Middle English Literature
- Advanced Academic Writing in English
- Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
- Academic Writing in English
- Blaming the Body: Ethics, Medicine and Culture in Western Europe
- Literary Theory and Methods
- 17th and 18th Century British and American Literature
- Practical Criticism
- Dissertation Supervision
- Communication Arts
- English Literature Survey
