a blurb on teaching

My teaching draws from both academic research and community wisdom. In my classrooms, we apply critical frameworks to many issues students already navigate, analyzing everything from inaccessible buildings to tabletop roleplaying games. I'm committed to making explicit the often-unspoken rules of academic settings, which often serve to exclude students marginalized by race, disability, gender, social class, and other markers of difference. At the center of my pedagogy is one foundational question: what do we need to get to a more livable tomorrow?

shout outs

Like many in my field, I began teaching as a first-year graduate student with no experience and little idea of what I was doing. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from and grow alongside generous colleagues, students, and community partners— and to have found this discipline that takes seriously the study and art of teaching. Major influences in my pedagogical growth include:

• bell hooks’s Teaching to Transgress

• King, Gubele, and Anderson’s Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story

• The imagination and resistive strategies of Bettina Love

• The Abolitionist Teaching Network

• Jay Dolmage’s Academic Ableism

• Artist-Activist Celeste Chan

• GPat Patterson - the most innovative and compassionate teacher I know

• Christina Cedillo on critical embodiment pedagogy

• Ersula Ore on pushback and care

Courses I’ve designed and taught

Graduate

• Storytelling as Rhetorical Criticism

• Misfit Rhetorics

• Composition Pedagogy

• Storying Social Change: Narratives of (Un)Belonging

• Feminist Rhetorics

• Article Writing Workshop

Undergraduate

• Medical Rhetorics, Race, and Gender

• Storying Social Change

• Podcasts & Paradigm Shifts: Storytelling for the Revolution

• Transgender Rhetorics

• Disability Rhetorics

• Principles of Rhetoric

• Feminist Rhetorics

• Introduction to Creative Writing

• Nonfiction Writing Workshop

• Composition I & II