Recent and Upcoming Courses

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)
  • ​Writing the Hypothetical in Memoir (craft class)

Literature​
  • Introduction to the Study of Literature (hybrid, synchronous)
  • Literature Matters: The Monstrous (hybrid, synchronous)
  • Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem (online, asynchronous)
  • Utopias and Dystopias​​
​Academic Writing
  • Writing Essentials: Demystifying the Academy (hybrid, synchronous)
  • College Writing: Illness and Medicine in the Great Lakes Region (hybrid, synchronous)​​​
  • Intermediate Composition: What is Literacy? (online and hybrid sections)

Teaching Interests​

Creative Writing
  • Narrative Forms (Coevolution of Narrative, Literary Technologies, and Society)
  • Using Research in Fiction and Nonfiction
  • ​Genre Fiction (Fabulism, Science Fiction, Flash Fiction)
  • Digital Storytelling (Podcasts/Audio)
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Literature
  • Popular Literature (Victorian, Southern Gothic, Pulp Fiction, Contemporary) 
  • Marginalized Traditions (Disability Lit, Women's Life Writing)
  • New Historicism
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Academic and Professional Writing
  • Literacy (Academic, Information) ​
  • Demystification through Process Writing
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
  • Experiential Learning (Publishing and Editing)

Affiliated Universities, Programs, and Organizations

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Past​