Teaching

  • I have been teaching undergraduate composition and literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City since 2008, and before then I was a teaching assistant from 2000-2008. Here is a list of courses I have designed and taught:


  • Honors 100: First-Year Seminar

  • Honors Anchor 199: Reacting to the Past

  • Honors 215: Researching Kansas City

  • Honors English 225: Intermediate Academic Prose

  • Honors Discourse 200: Culture and Diversity in Kansas City

  • Honors Discourse 300: Public Urban Education

  • Honors Discourse 300: Civic and Community Engagement

  • Honors Discourse 300: Scotland Study Abroad

  • Honors 330: Senior Thesis/Project Practicum

  • Honors 360C: Leadership and Ethics

  • Honors 499: Senior Thesis/Project Writing Group

  • Honors Anchor 397: Public Urban Education

  • Honors Anchor 399: Social Action

  • Honors Anchor 399: Scotland Study Abroad

  • Roo Honors Academy: Kansas City as Text

  • Anchor 299: Critical Issues in Women’s and Gender Studies

  • Critical Thinking in the Arts and Humanities Honors: Kansas City as Text

  • Community and Urban Engagement Honors: Social Action

  • Culture and Diversity Honors: Investigating Identity, Power, and Change

  • Discourse 100: Reasoning and Values

  • English 110: Introduction to Academic Prose

  • English 225: Intermediate Academic Prose

  • English 204: Writing About Literature

  • English 241: Women and Literature

  • English 311: American Literature I (to 1865)

  • English 311: American Literature I (to 1865) Online

  • English 321: American Literature II (1865 to present)

  • English 317: British Literature I Course Assistant