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Teaching Statement

Teaching is a creative and pedagogical opportunity to instruct, to guide, and to help students put into practice the art and craft of rhetoric, composition, literature, and creative writing craft while learning from them on how to improve as a writer and an instructor. As an instructor, she appreciates a student-centered and instructor-centered learning structure while creating an atmosphere for active participation.

Courses Taught

ENGL 1301: Essentials to College Rhetoric

  • Fall 2021, 3 credits

  • Fall 2022, 3 credits

    This course is designed to ground first-year students in the reading, writing, and rhetorical demands, and practices necessary for engaging in civic discourse and for success in college and beyond. This class teaches students to be both critical readers of complex texts and critical writers and creators of effective texts. This course assumes that the key to critical reading and effective writing is rhetorical knowledge. Rhetoric is foundational for this course because it helps you to understand how other people’s texts work and have effects on audiences and helps you to compose effective and purposeful texts yourself. Rhetorical knowledge prepares you to participate in and respond to a variety of writing situations, whether it be in public arenas, professional settings, personal situations, or future college courses. This course teaches you how to identify other writers’ choices and how to make your own choices across a variety of writing situations.

ENGL 1302: Advanced College Rhetoric

  • Spring 2022, 3 credits

  • Summer 2022, 3 credits

  • Spring 2023, 3 credits

    This course is designed to ground first-year students in the reading, writing, and rhetorical demands and practices necessary for engaging in civic discourse and for success in college and beyond. This class builds on the work of English 1301 to teach students to be both critical readers of complex texts and critical writers of effective texts. English 1302 focuses particularly on inquiry, conducting research, evaluating sources, incorporating source material in your own writing, mapping out a conversation around an issue, and entering that conversation through your own writing. This course assumes that the key to researching, evaluating sources, and responding to writing contexts is rhetorical knowledge. Rhetoric is foundational for this course because it helps you to understand how other people’s texts work and helps you compose effective and purposeful texts yourself in a variety of genres, media, and forms.

ENGL 2351: Introduction to Creative Writing

  • Summer 2023, 3 credits

  • Fall 2023, 3 credits

    This course is centered around understanding the fundamentals and basic elements, as well as the reading and writing of fiction and poetry. Reading is an essential aspect of becoming a better writer. To facilitate this, we will not only be writing and revising our own creative work throughout the semester, but you will also be expected to read the required materials closely (assessed through class discussion and participation and reading responses), provide constructive, careful, and useful feedback on your classmates’ creative writings through workshops and verbal/written comments. Additionally, a complete and comprehensive final portfolio will be constructed to be turned in at the end of the semester. Our primary goals in the course are to hone our craft, experiment with new styles of writing, and create a supportive, collaborative writing community.