Teaching

Critical thinking and an empathetic encountering of others’ voices can be, in today’s global climate, literally matters of life or death. No matter what I’m teaching, I believe in:

  • a pedagogy of care

  • process-oriented writing

  • testing students’ assumptions about what writing can be, or mean, or look like

  • prioritizing diverse perspectives in my course texts

  • centering student work in the classroom

  • engaged, encouraging, question-based peer responses / workshops

Scholarship

As a scholar, I am interested in:

  • disability studies

  • confessional and post / neo-confessional poetry

  • lyric memoir, the lyric essay and hybrid creative nonfiction

  • creative writing pedagogy

  • visual poetries & image-text intersections

  • literature in translation by women writers

  • literary citizenship and the pedagogy of professionalization

Courses

Courses I’ve taught include:

  • Intermediate & Advanced Poetry

  • Intermediate & Advanced Creative Nonfiction

  • Speculative Literature

  • Literary Editing and Publishing

  • Creative Writing Professionalization

  • Graduate Workshops in Poetry and Creative Prose

Resources

You can find many of my syllabi online via Eastern Illinois University’s The Keep.

Want to know more about my literary editing and publishing work? Click below to access Bluestem magazine, which I edit, or The Vehicle, EIU’s student-run journal, which I advise.
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