My Teaching Philosophy

I see the classroom as a space for asking questions in collaboration.

Whether teaching literature or the mechanics of writing and research, one of the most important tools I equip my students with is the ability to ask good questions—of themselves, their ideas, their texts, and their world.

Questions are sites for listening, learning, and forging new knowledges in community. Students see the journey of posing and searching for answers as a quest after the Latin questa (meaning search, inquiry, pursuit). Students find the exercise of asking questions overrides the answer itself. My teaching is driven by the processes and postures that go into questioning, namely: curiosity, collaboration, and flexibility.

My courses are organized around compelling questions, such as: How does art become action? What does it mean to be a historical woman writer and to write about historical women? How do video games tell stories, and what stories do we tell about videogames? How can we read wisely in our information-inundated world?

I currently teach in the Writing Program at Boston University. I have a wide range of teaching and tutoring experience in the Writing Program, English Department, and beyond. I received the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing in 2022, and I'm a member of the Boston Rhetoric and Writing teachers' network (BRAWN).

My course design in topics ranging from freshman writing, nineteenth-century reform texts, poetry survey, and videogames centers students’ previous experiences and analytical skills as building blocks for working alongside one another in an inclusive, hospitable space where they might ask questions.

Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Fellow, Boston University (2020-Present)

Instructor of Record, Writing Program:

WR153: Ready Player Reader: Literary Video Games and Narrative - Writing, Research, & Inquiry with

Creativity/Innovation. Spring 2024.

WR120: Ready Player Reader: Literary Video Games and Narrative - First-Year Writing Seminar.

Fall 2023.

WR150: Hard Times, Theirs and Ours: Literatures of Social Change 1850-Present - Research, Writing, &

Inquiry. Spring 2021 (hybrid in-person/Zoom classroom).

WR120: Hard Times, Theirs and Ours: 19th-Century Writing for Social Change - First-Year Writing Seminar.

Fall 2020 (hybrid in-person/Zoom classroom).

Instructor of Record, Department of English:

EN142: Introduction to Poetry - English Aesthetic Exploration Seminar. Spring 2022. (materials here)

EN120: Writing Women in 19th-Century America - English Freshman Seminar. Fall 2021.

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Boston University (2019-2020)

Weekly discussion seminars & grading:

EN162: The Ethics of Art, with Robert Chodat, EN162. Spring 2020 (Zoom classroom).

EN155: The Myth of the Family in U.S. Literature, Film, and TV, with Susan Mizruchi, EN155. Fall 2019.

Other Teaching Experience

ECE Writing Tutor, Boston University

Senior Design Electrical & Computer Engineering, ECE463 with Dr. Alan Pisano, fall 2022-spring 2023.

Collaborated with professor and other tutors to design and proctor writing workshops

GED Tutor, Mid-Valley Literacy Center in Salem, OR

Marion County Jail Transition Center, spring 2017.

Tutored GED reading comprehension, essay composition, mathematics, and social studies

Advanced English Courses Tutor, Corban University in Salem, OR

Academic Student Support Office, fall 2016-spring 2017