Recent and Upcoming Courses

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Creative Writing

• ​Intro to Creative Writing: Multi-Genre
• Intro to Creative Writing: Fiction
• Fundamentals of Fiction Workshop
• Intermediate Creative Writing: Prose
• Advanced Fiction Workshop
• Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Fabulism: Short Fiction through a Fantastic Lens (online, synchronous)

Literature​

• Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem (online, asynchronous)
• Utopias and Dystopias​​

​Academic Writing

• College Writing: Rhetoric of Illness and Medicine
• English Composition: Rhetoric of Propaganda 
• English Composition: Rhetoric of Humor
• Intermediate Composition: Anthropological Ethnography (online and hybrid sections)

Teaching Interests​

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Creative Writing

• Narrative Forms (Coevolution of Narrative, Technology, and Social Movements)
• Using Research in Fiction and Nonfiction (Science, History, Culture, Mythology)
• ​Genre Fiction (Fabulism, Science Fiction, Detective Novels/True Crime)
• Multimodal and Digital Storytelling (Podcasts, Hybrid Texts)

Literature

• Documentation in Fiction (Epistolary, Novels in Documents)
• Women's Life Writing (Evolution of Memoir; Disability, Trauma, and Embodiment)
• Marginalized Traditions (Disability Lit, Queer Lit, Women's Writing)

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Academic and Professional Writing

• Multimodal Composition
• Publishing and Editing (Experiential Learning)
• Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Collaboration

Affiliated Universities, Programs, and Organizations

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Current

• Albion College English Department
• Sewanee Young Writers' Conference (high school)

Past

• University of Cincinnati Department of English
• University of Alabama Department of English
• Mercantile Library of Cincinnati (continuing education)
• ​Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (advanced middle and high school)​