Brief Philosophy of Teaching

Current Courses

Writing Seminar, Duke University

Arguing for Revolution: Exploring Radical Rhetorics

Recent Courses

Literature

English 28A: The Poetic Imagination
English 28B: Comic and Tragic Vision
English 28C: Romance and Realism

Composition (Links to UC Irvine pages for these courses)

Writing 39A: Introduction to Academic Writing
Writing 39B: Critical Reading and Rhetoric
Writing 39C: Argument and Research

Selected Proposed Courses

Introductory/Survey Undergraduate Courses

U.S. Literature 1865-1945
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature
U.S. Poetry 1900-1945
U.S. Poetry 1945-present
U.S. Modernisms
Introduction to Poetry
Introduction to Literary Theory

Advanced Undergraduate Seminars (adaptable to graduate seminars)

Literary New Left
The Confessional Poem
Literature and Television
Poetic Avant Gardes
Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry: Anxieties of Influence

Writing courses

Rhetorics of Revolution

Graduate Seminars

Theories of Ideology
Performative Poetics and Politics
What was Modernism?