As a researcher of nineteenth-century scientific and literary writing, with a background in both the sciences and the humanities, I strongly believe that no academic discipline exists in vacuum. In my experience teaching introductory physics recitations, composition courses, and English literature courses, I have always worked to convey to my students need to make interdisciplinary connections a part of learning. While the branches of academia require different thought processes, and have different expectations and evaluations of success, I emphasize for my students the interdisciplinary aspect of all knowledge. I believe that by encouraging students to link the information being presented to their own lives and other fields of study, connections are formed which help to cement their learning. My classes allow space for students to make interdisciplinary connections because they are grounded in the idea that teaching is not merely a static procedure designed to provide students with recitable facts. Rather it is a fluid sharing of both information and experience, designed to both form a basis for practical applications and to provide the learning strategies required for the acquisition of further knowledge.
Teaching
English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry: Things Matter
Fall 2021, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse. Readings focused on the value of thinking about and through objects in academic writing.
English 124 - Writing and Literature: Literature and Science (Remote Due to COVID-19)
Winter 2021, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on the relationship between literature and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by scientists such as Charles Darwin and novelists such as Daniel Keyes.
English 124 - Writing and Literature: Literature and Science (Remote Due to COVID-19)
Fall 2020, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on the relationship between literature and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by scientists such as Charles Darwin and novelists such as Daniel Keyes.
English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry (Remote Due to COVID-19)
Summer 2020, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Skills emphasized included close reading and comparative analysis.
English 124 - Writing and Literature: Evocative Objects (Partially Remote Due to COVID-19)
Winter 2020, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on short stories and poetry about objects in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by writers such as Oscar Wilde and Robert Frost.
English 124 – Academic Writing and Literature: Literature and Science
Fall 2019, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on the relationship between literature and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by scientists such as James Watson and short story writers such as Richard Selzer.
English 125 – Writing and Academic Inquiry
Spring 2019, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse. Readings focused on analysis of objects and representations of objects in short stories and essays, including work by writers such as Virginia Woolf and Jonathan Hunt.
English 124 - Writing and Literature: Literature and Science
Winter 2019, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on the relationship between literature and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Lightman.
English 124 - Writing and Literature: Literature and Science
Fall 2018, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse by writing about literature. Readings focused on the relationship between literature and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Alan Lightman.
English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry: The Two Cultures
Spring 2018, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse. Readings focused on the relationship between the humanities and the sciences in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including work by writers such as Elizabeth Alexander and Edgar Allan Poe.
English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry: Things Matter
Winter 2015, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse. Readings focused on the relationship between objects and identity and included short stories by Virginia Woolf and a selection of essays and articles about objects.
English 125 - Writing and Academic Inquiry
Fall 2014, University of Michigan, Graduate Student Instructor of Record
This course aims to help students develop writing skills and engage with academic discourse. Readings included Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and various critical essays centered on that text.
English 460 - Virginia Woolf: Life and Learning
Winter 2014, University of Michigan, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Responsibilities for this course, led by Professor John Whittier-Ferguson, included grading student assignments, and meeting with students in office hours. Texts covered included Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, Jacob’s Room, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, Orlando, and Between the Acts.
English 313 - Memoir and Social Crisis
Fall 2013, University of Michigan, Graduate Teaching Assistant
Responsibilities for this course, led by Professor Ralph Williams, included leading class discussion, grading student assignments, and meeting with students in office hours. Authors discussed included Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Primo Levi, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Tim O’Brien, Lynda Van Devanter, Paul Monette, and Marvelyn Brown.
English 315 - Black Women Migrants, Black Women Writers
Summer 2013, University of Michigan, Grader
Responsibilities for this course, led by Associate Professor Xiomara Santamarina, included grading students’ assignments and advising students in office hours.
College Physics II
Spring 2010, University of Missouri, Recitation Leader
Responsibilities included demonstrating example problems, answering student queries, and occasionally lecturing. Subjects covered included algebra-based electricity and magnetism, optics, and modern physics.
College Physics I
Fall 2010, University of Missouri, Recitation Leader
Responsibilities included demonstrating example problems, answering student queries, and occasionally lecturing. Subjects covered included algebra-based kinematics, dynamics, fluids, oscillatory motion, waves, and thermodynamics.