Teaching
TEACHING INTERESTS/AREAS PREPARED TO TEACH
Poetry Writing (Including Poetic Forms and Prosody)
Introduction to Creative Writing (Multi-Genre Including Poetry, Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, the Essay, and Drama)
Advanced Multi-Genre Creative Writing (Including Poetry, Creative Non-Fiction, and Fiction)
Documentary Poetics
Political Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
The History of Poetry and Poetics
English Renaissance Poetry
The Seventeenth-Century Devotional Lyric
The Elegy in English (From the Renaissance to the Contemporary Elegy Focusing on Race, Class, and Gender and as Poetry of Resistance)
American Poetry (With an Emphasis on Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary Poetry)
Multicultural Poetry (With an Emphasis on the Poetry of Remembrance and Witness)
Hybrid Forms
World Literature (Great Works of World Literature with an Emphasis on Poetry)
Translation Studies (French and Yiddish Poetry)
Interdisciplinary Studies (The Melding of Poetry with Visual Art to Produce Socially and
Historically Engaged Hybrid Work)
Genocide and Trauma Studies
Rhetoric and Composition
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (Selected)
Undergraduate Courses
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, Fall 2018-Spring 2020
Special Topics for Writers: Representing the “Inward” Self in the Lyric Poem (Spring 2020)
Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction) (Spring 2020)
Literature Course: “Unacknowledged Legislators” / Political Poetry from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jos Charles (Spring 2020)
Writing Workshop in Poetry (Advanced): “The Art of Voice” (Fall 2019)
Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction) (Fall 2019)
Reading Poetry (2 Sections, Fall 2019)
Writing Workshop in Poetry (Advanced): “Documentary Poetry: Merging the Social with thePersonal and Making Poems News” (Spring 2019)
Special Topics for Writers: “‘More Crazy Mourning, More Howl’: The Elegy, Poem of Grieving and Resistance” (Spring 2019)
Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction) (Spring 2019)
Writing Workshop in Creative Nonfiction Prose (Advanced): “After Great Pain, A Formal
Feeling Comes” (Fall 2018)
Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction) (2 Sections, Fall 2018)
College Composition I (Fall 2018)
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, NEW BRUNSWICK CAMPUS, Spring 2018, Spring 2008-Fall 2011
Advanced Multi-Genre Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction (Spring 2018)
Advanced Poetry Workshop (4 Sections)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (4 Sections)
Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (6 Sections)
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, 2012-2016
Creative Writing: Poetry (Intermediate)
Literature Course: Introduction to Poetry / A Survey of British and American Poetry from theRenaissance to the Twenty-First Century
Literature Course: Introduction to Drama with Emphases on Renaissance and Twentieth-Century Plays
First-Year Writing I (7 Sections)
First-Year Writing II (6 Sections)
Online Facilitator, First-Year Writing II
EUGENE LANG COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AT THE NEW SCHOOL, DEPARTMENT OF LITERARY STUDIES, Spring 2008
Reading for Writers: (Advanced Multicultural Reading and Writing Intensive Class): “Poetry of Remembrance and Witness”
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK / CUNY, 2004-2007
Advanced Poetry Workshop (4 Sections)
Intermediate Poetry Workshop (4 Sections)
Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Drama (4 Sections)
World Humanities: Major Works of World Literature (2 Sections)
Composition
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES, 2003-2006
Advanced Multi-Genre Creative Writing Workshop: “Writing of Remembrance and Witness”
Expository Writing (8 Sections)
PRATT INSTITUTE, SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, Fall 2005 & 2003
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry, Fiction, and Drama
Graduate Courses
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK / CUNY, 2004-2007
MFA Critical Practice Class (Craft of Poetry): “The Modern Poetic Sequence”
MFA Poetry Workshop
UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO, Fall 2018-Spring 2020
M.A. Literature Course: “Unacknowledged Legislators” / Political Poetry from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Jos Charles (Spring 2020)
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